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TIL JP Morgan’s ancestor, James Pierpont, was a founder of Yale College.

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KOWk9 TIL that beloved movie A Christmas Story was co-written and directed by Bob Clark who is also credited with helping creating the slasher genre by producing and directing the influential 1973 horror film Black Christmas just 9 years prior.
6nyY TIL Cats only meow towards Humans. In the wild they never meow.
d8QoB TIL Forty stones outline the original boundary of Washington DC, many of which are forgotten and neglected. This 10-sq mile area was to be the new capital of the United States, proposed by George Washington and assisted in its layout by a free-African American astronomer, Benjamin Banneker, in 1789
vPxkK TIL that in 1967, a single-engine Cessna 195 carrying a family of three crashed into the trinity mountains. Though they survived up to two months after the crash, this was before emergency beacon locators was required equipment on planes, the plane was not found for over a year, when they were dead.
gJAb TIL that China has a limit of 34 Hollywood movies imported per year. This is why movie directors try to protagonise China in their movies to try and get their movie into one of the 34 (eg The Martian where China helps NASA).