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

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b9NPQ TIL: Jim Carey used to get to do stand up in his 7th grade class. He used humor to fit in and his teacher made a deal with him - if he was quiet all day he would get 15 minutes at the end of class where he did stand up using material from life, the class, or doing impressions of faculty members.
a88Zb TIL about Kendall Myers, the grandson of the first full-time editor of National Geographic (credited w/ having built the magazine into the iconic publication that it is today) and also great grandson of Alexander Graham Bell is serving a life sentence in the U.S.'s only supermax prison for espionage
ypoa TIL that the Secret Service was originally founded to suppress counterfeit currency in 1865 and later on in 1902, the Secret Service started to protect the president.
yLa TIL if you store your data in “the cloud” the FBI can search it, in secret, without a warrant or cause.
94JM TIL there’s a German sword fighting technique where you grab the blade and swing the handle at the enemy.