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Til Jerry Springer is British and emigrated to america

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kJQ1B TIL The corpse of Eva Peron was lost and re-discovered in a crypt in Milan under a fake name, then was moved inside Peron's house in Spain. After assassinating Pedro Aramburu, a group of rebels held his body hostage and tried to use it as bargain to negotiate the return of Eva's body to Argentina
LoYv TIL that the OSS director once showcased the then newly invented gun silencer to president Franklin D. Roosevelt by shooting 10 rounds at a sandbag in the oval office without Roosevelt noticing, and then handing him the smoking gun.
neypb TIL Some countries have one-day weekends, Friday only in Djibouti, Iran, Palestine, and Somalia. Saturday only in Nepal. Most other countries have two-day weekends.
gR5b TIL the Italian words widely used in New Jersey differ greatly from mainstream Italian today not because of bad “copying” but because the words came from people speaking an Italian dialect that subsequently died out in Italy
woyOJ TIL about William Adams, an English navigator who, in 1600, became the first Englishman to reach Japan. He also became one of the first known Western samurai and a key advisor to the shōgun, and one of the first Englishmen to travel to Thailand and Vietnam.