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TIL that there is a piece of City of Manila (main capital of Philippines) inside City of Makati

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d8ZMZ TIL President John Adams started smoking at 8 and drinking at 15. He lived to be 90.
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b9Xn4 TIL Ex-President Ronald Reagan occupied the 34th-floor Fox Plaza office building (where parts of "Die Hard" were shot) til 2001, breaking tradition by using a private office over a federal one. When Reagan aides toured the 34th-floor in 1989, it was littered with shells/broken glass from "Die Hard".
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