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TIL Earl L. Brewer, Governor of Mississippi from 1912 to 1916, never once made a public campaign speech while running for Governor in 1911.

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Br7Jk TIL of the Westminster pedophile dossier. Compiled by MP Geoffrey Dickens in 1984, it provided evidence of a pedophile ring operating within the British government. It has been missing since 2013. Lead investigators assigned to discover the whereabouts of the dossier resigned after one year.
VVyp TIL George Washington stopped the Revolutionary War to return a lost dog to the enemy. The terrier of a British general was found wandering the battlefield. The US waved a truce flag, and both sides stopped shooting until the dog was successfully returned to the British commander.
VBwNG TIL there is a strawberry in Japan that costs $500
g6X7 TIL that the illegal landing of a “mentally unstable” 19 year old amatuer pilot in the Red Square inadvertantly helped lead to the fall of the Soviet Union, and the end of the Cold War.
16xnO TIL that the popular Nazi symbol is the Hooked Cross, a christian symbol. And not the Swastika, the eastern symbol. One of the places from Hitler's childhood includes a Benedictine Monastery in Austria which had used the Crooked Cross symbol from at least 1869