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

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neKaG TIL that in addition for punishing Prometheus for stealing fire by having his liver eaten every day over and over Zeus also punished Mankind for receiving fire by sending them Women.
bLa7 TIL Carl Sagan sued Apple Computer in 1995. Apple used ‘Carl Sagan’ as an internal code for the Power Macintosh 7100. After a cease-and-desist letter, Apple renamed it 'BHA’, for Butt-Head Astronomer. Sagan sued. Apple then changed the name to “LAW”, short for “Lawyers are Wimps”.
XKNR TIL sliced bread was first sold in 1928, marketed as “The greatest thing since wrapped bread”
vkvD TIL that Star Wars director George Lucas is a fan of Seth MacFarlane’s Family Guy, and that MacFarlane stated that LucasFilm was “extremely helpful when tha Family Guy crew wanted to parody their works.”
KYKa9 TIL that Great Britain was at war with Sweden for almost 2 years without ever actually fighting. There were zero causalities and ships traded as usual.