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TIL About the Jefferson Davis Presidential Library and Museum. It was Rededicated as Recent as 2013. The Only Presidential Library Dedicated to a President of a Different Nation. Davis was Famously the President of The Confederate States of America.

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AD67x TIL the Sikh religion has no hierarchy, all practitioners are equal.
yQAne TIL Marc Benioff, an American Internet entrepreneur with a net worth of $6.9 billion, created the 1-1-1 model of integrated corporate philanthropy, by which companies contribute 1 percent of equity, 1 percent of employee hours, and 1 percent of product back to the community.
VMxdm TIL that the Elan "therapeutic" school, infamous for torturing its students who weren't allowed to contact the outside world, had a form of punishment where well behaved students would beat up poorly behaved ones. One student punished in this way was killed. The school covered it up for years.
VMy1Z TIL, Billy Joel does not sell tickets for the first row of his concerts. He has his road crew grab fans from the worst seats and moves them there.
YprXd TIL in 1924 Joan Whitney Payson, the first female to own a major league sports team without inheriting it (the New York Mets), was wedding-gifted a palatial house on 5th Ave in New York City by her great uncle which also housed 13 servants.