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TIL Winston Churchill was half American by birth - a fact of which he was deeply proud.

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nNv7 TIL that “Police Officer” is not even in the top 10 most dangerous jobs in American and that “Garbage Collector” is the 5th most dangerous
v1n98 TIL: The US Army, Navy and Air Force have massive, taxpayer-funded sports programs that compete with universities, and they aren't required to disclose their finances
v1gbB TIL in 1883, a Mexican astronomer witnessed hundreds of unidentified objects passing in front of the Sun. Today, they are thought to have been fragments of a massive comet that missed the Earth by just a few hundred kilometers. Had it hit, it likely would've caused an extinction-level event.
8ajE4 TIL the "Tarpeian Rock" is a cliff, some distance higher at 80 feet in Roman times, that was used by the Roman public to execute criminals and perceived traitors for over 300 years
7rb9P TIL a sinkhole at the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, Kentucky swallowed eight Corvettes, causing millions of dollars worth of damage