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TIL middle class workers are looked down on for golfing
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TIL that the islands of the Pacific nation of Kiribati extend 3900 km from east to west - further than the distance from Los Angeles to Miami, London to Cairo, Dubai to Moscow, or Bangkok to Seoul
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TIL that on March 6, 1967, Stalin’s daughter - 41-year-old Svetlana Alliluyeva - defected at the U.S. embassy in New Delhi, India, where she publicly denounced Communism and “embraced God, America and apple pie.”
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TIL James Taylor’s father served as the medical officer for Deep Freeze, an expedition to Antarctica.
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TIL: One of George Patton’s speeches was so vulgar that it had to be toned down for his movie biography. It included phrases such as not having to tell your future grandson you ‘shoveled shit in Louisiana’, but instead you 'rode with a son-of-a-goddamned-bitch named George Patton!’
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TIL that Fountain Hughes lived through slavery, the Civil War, World War 1, World War 2, and the beginning of the Cold War.