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TIL Motown founder Berry Gordy is a second cousin to former President Jimmy Carter

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VBg54 TIL: we only ever see one side of the moon due to synchronous rotation
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leQB TIL that a man who was assigned the first military draft number of WWII was the son of a man who was assigned the first military draft number of WWI.
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