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TIL The owner of the New England Patriots, Robert Kraft, was able to buy the team largely due to a prior owner’s financial difficulties due to financing a Jackson Five Tour

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Lk6Gp TIL in 1926, Poland sent the US a birthday card with over 5 million signatures. Polish citizen Leopold Kotnowski visited the White House to present the card for America’s 150th birthday. It has 30,000 pages full of art, photos, poems and pressed flowers.
4XrJa TIL that Lurleen Wallace, the first female governor of Alabama, was elected after term limits prohibited her husband, noted segregationist George Wallace, from running again. She had married at 16 and had never held a paying job prior to becoming governor.
oRnbL TIL that two surfaces can be bonded purely by intermolecular forces if both surfaces are smooth and flat enough. This is called optical contact bonding.
7ZkX TIL that LotR:Return Of The King has the highest body count of any movie ever made, with 836 on-screen deaths.
G54Q TIL: From 2001 to 2006 manufacturers colluded in an international LCD price fixing conspiracy