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TIL Michael Bay’s average Rotten Tomatoes film rating is 38%

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4XRyR TIL U.S. President James Buchanan regularly bought slaves with his own money in Washington, D.C. and quietly freed them in Pennsylvania
6EgOJ TIL that 12,000 bears are farmed for their bile in Asia which is used in traditional Chinese medicine and generates $2bn per year. Farming always involves surgery on the bears to insert a catheter or to cut a hole through the abdomen by which the bile leaks. Bear bile has no medicinal effect.
X6oQ TIL An 18 year old freshmen funded his education by asking 2.8 million people for one penny.
rNDro TIL Nintendo continued to repair the original NES consoles in Japan until October 31, 2007
8exwb TIL an International Chess Master tried to advance his career in 1951 by playing against 30 Russian school children at the same time. In the end, he drew 10 and lost the other 20, setting the record for worst simultaneous chess playing in the world.