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TIL that Alexander Hamilton's great-great-grandson, Pierpont Morgan Hamilton, was a veteran of both World Wars, and was awarded the Portuguese Order of Christ, the Order of the British Empire, the Legion of Merit, and the Medal of Honor during WW2, and was promoted a Major General after WW2.

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x6M07 TIL that the date of Easter used to be so complicated to calculate that church authorities would come up with algorithms to determine it years in advance. Disagreements over the proper algorithm led to Eastern Orthodox churches celebrating Easter on a different date than Western churches.
1alJO TIL $30,000 in 1964 is equivalent in purchasing power to about $248,476.45 in 2019, a difference of $218,476.45 over 54 years. The 1964 inflation rate was 1.31%. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics consumer price index, today's prices in 2019 are 728.25% higher than average prices in 1964
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