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TIL middle class workers are looked down on for golfing

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GYR0N TIL that a man named Ted Jorgensen had abandoned his son at birth and decades later got a visit from a biographer who walked in his bike shop asking about his son who he had never heard of before that moment, Jeff Bezos.
gMy8y TIL that German-born soldiers made up about 10% of Union forces during the Civil War. Some of them were exiled supporters of the 1848 revolutions that swept Europe. After the war, the Forty-Eighters supported improved labor laws, and also advanced development in education, medicine, and journalism.
LoVP TIL In 1907 Joseph Stalin said at the funeral of his first wife, “This creature softened my heart of stone. She died and with her died my last warm feelings for humanity.”
Y7xEA TIL that 'Australia's Naughtiest Home Videos' was taken off air in the middle of the first broadcast, when the owner of the network discovered the show and ordered "Get that shit off the air!"
grjVW TIL Andrew Johnson gave a drunk vice-presidential inaugural address on March 4th 1895. It was described variously as "hostile, inane, incoherent, repetitive, self-aggrandizing, and sloppy"