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TIL "Hollywood" became "Holywood" briefly, when Pope John Paul II made a visit to USA on September 1987.

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jlQX TIL That the Soviet Diplomat Molotov was reportedly the only man to ever “shake hands” with Stalin, Lenin, Hitler, Himmler, Göring, Roosevelt and Churchill. He also outlived them all and died in 1986 at the age of 96.
4X7Eb TIL that in 2011 for 4 hours you could log into any Dropbox account without a password resulting in everyone being able to access any account.
nWAo TIL In 1933, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 6102, which outlawed the private ownership of gold coins, gold bullion, and gold certificates by American citizens, forcing them to sell these to the Federal Reserve.
5VB0n TIL macaques possess the right vocal anatomy to perform human speech, only lacking the intelligence in order to do so.
M4K TIL the only man to win both the Decathlon and the Pentathlon was of native American descent and had his medals removed as he played professional sport (just like most Olympians at the time)