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5xJB TIL that on average Greeks work for more hours than any other nationality in Europe.
yVXGV Today I learned that around 18% of people with Down syndrome are on the autism spectrum.
85KP TIL that after the US fought Britain, president George Washington vowed never to set foot in London again , so when Virginia gifted a statue of the president to Britain, they also included soil from Virginia to place under the statue.
4kyNb TIL that Samuel L. Jackson was expelled from Morehouse College after he and other students held the Board of Trustees hostage, including Martin Luther King, Jr.'s father. They demanded changes to the curriculum and more black people on the governing board.
DQ0pD TIL of WWII vet Bert Shepard, the only man to ever pitch in Major League Baseball with an artificial leg