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TIL that, as a philanthropist, actor Paul Newman was counted as the person who had distributed more money - in relation to his own wealth - than any other American during the 20th century.

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xVgBk TIL when The Temptations released the album version of "War", the band and their label didn't press a single version to avoid alienating the more conservative part of their fanbase. However, they allowed Edwin Starr to release his cover of that song as a single, thus boosting his career.
Y7y8B TIL Canada doesn't have internal free trade
ePmn TIL that Edgar Allen Poe wrote an essay explaining exactly what he meant when writing The Raven
BgXVk TIL that the first parking restrictions were in ancient Assyria in c700 BCE. They were made by king Sennacherib about the prohibition to park along the sacred road. The oldest parking signs read "Royal Road - let no man decrease it". The penalty was death followed by impaling outside one's own home
R5dP8 TIL: About Philly Mignon, an album by jazz drummer Philly Joe Jones released in 1977.