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TIL Benjamin Franklin Wanted the National Bird To Be A Turkey

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VMaxQ TIL Abd al-Rahman I family was overthrown from Syria AD750. He escaped to present day Andalusia in Spain and established that “Golden Age” of Western Islam in which Muslims, Jews and Christians lived for an extended period of Convivencia.
ADPg7 TIL that E. B. White, author of "Charlotte's Web" and "Stuart Little," co-authored a spoof of sex manuals with James Thurber titled "Is Sex Necessary?"
kr97 TIL The US overthrew a democratic government in Guatemala, in favor of the dictator Jorqe Ubico, because the United Fruit Company was an American owned company and they didn’t want to pay for the taxes or the import duties on bananas.
BAEK TIL Jack Daniel, founder of Jack Daniel’s Whiskey, died due to kicking a safe that wouldn’t open and later contracting blood poisoning.
drl7 TIL Milla Jovovich and Luc Besson developed the ‘divine language’ for the movie The Fifth Element. Both of them were fluent in it by the time the film production was finished.