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TIL the father of billionaire and Democratic presidential candidate Tom Steyer, Roy Henry Steyer, was a prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials

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4kLw5 TIL that Ferdie Pacheco was both Muhammad Ali’s doctor and his cornerman. In 1977, Pacheco noted that Ali got poor results in a series of physical reflex tests and advised him to retire from boxing. When Ali ignored this, Pacheco quit Ali’s team, no longer feeling confident with Ali’s condition.

0wAkN TIL that the cleat on a tape measure is loose for a reason. Outside measurement: cleat is extended and the measurement is from the inside of the cleat. Inside measurement: cleat is collapsed and measurement taken from outside of the cleat. Travel of the cleat = thickness of the cleat.

J0o8 TIL Martin Van Buren was the first U.S. President for whom English was a second language (He spoke Dutch). He was also the first President to be born in America, (as opposed to British Colonial soil)

nmnr TIL Pocahontas’ marriage to John Rolfe was considered the first interracial marriage in American history.

E1RaW TIL, The Anti-Work Movement is a philosophy that sees work as the cause of unhappiness, and should therefore be avoided. Although associated with anarchists and communists today, its roots can we traced back to the Ancient Greek Cynics.