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TIL Rolex is owned by a charitable foundation and pays no corporate tax

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bL64 TIL that President Johnson, out of respect for his assassinated predecessor, John F. Kennedy, used the Oval Office only as a formal setting with visitors and continued to do most of his work in his vice presidential suite located in the Old Executive Office Building
mmvR TIL that in August 2001 actor James Woods reported to authorities 4 suspicious males on his flight. Those males were the 911 hijackers on a dry run.
rN110 TIL During WWII, the largest volunteer army was the Indian army
R5Wg4 TIL that the ancient Olmecs believed in werejaguars, similar to the werewolf in European cultures.
kJ5y7 TIL that the Arctic Monkeys' song "I Wanna Be Yours" is based on the poem of the same name by John Cooper Clarke, which was originally published in 1982 on his album Zip Style Method. The song appears on the Arctic Monkeys' 2013 album AM.