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p8DLe TIL Jim Varney appeared in-character as Ernest P. Worrell entertaining the press corps at the White House
KOlrw TIL President Roosevelt's dog, Fala, was so popular that American soldiers would ask one another for the name of the dog in order to prove they weren't a German spy
awbro TIL: That leeches are still used in modern medicine.
EpPw TIL the license plate “2GAT123” has appeared in numerous films and TV shows since the 1980s. It is essentially the “555- phone number” of license plates.
ANpKl TIL that in 1991, U.S. Treasury Deputy Assistant Secretary Mike Basham learned that Salomon trader Paul Mozer had been submitting false bids in an attempt to purchase more treasury bonds than permitted by one buyer during the period between December 1990 and May 1991. Salomon was fined $190 million.