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TIL that Franklin D. Roosevelt likely had Guillain-Barré Syndrome, not Polio.

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7MPZ TIL that a secret soviet intelligence agent is primarily responsible for thwarting Operation Long Jump, concocted by Adolf Hitler, which was an attempt to assassinate Stalin, Churchill, and Roosevelt at the Tehran conference in 1943. This might be responsible for saving the world.
yQk8J TIL that there exists Free Beer, a beer whose recipe you can freely modify since the beer is open source. Currently, the beer is at version 6.0.
WkZyL TIL of Michael Fay, an American citizen who visited Singapore in 1993 and was sentenced to six strokes of the cane for vandalizing cars.
NgQJ TIL all cars with a trunk compartment made after 2001 in the U.S. are required to have an interior trunk latch designed to free any trapped or kidnapped people inside the trunk.
DQ4xv TIL that 20 of the top 100 US companies, by revenue, are just monetizing our health.