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TIL Hannibal Buress found a lookalike on social media, and sent him to the premiere of Spider-man: Homecoming in his place.

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j61xv TIL Napoleon III popularized the term Latin America to justify taking control of Mexico
wLMP1 TIL that the only woman to ever give the Oath of Office to a US president is federal judge Sarah Hughes, who swore in LBJ the day JFK was shot. Hughes was a Kennedy appointee
OoAAa TIL that one foot of the London Eye is on land owned by the South Bank Centre, who served the wheel's owners with a rent increase of more than 1500%, adding £1m to the bill.