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TIL that Hulk Hogan is the first, and only, pro wrestler, to be featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated

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neJjB TIL Andrew Jackson, face of the $20 bill, made it the goal of his administration to destroy the National Bank. He even cautioned the public about paper money in his farewell address.
gRRA TIL of a Doctor currently serving a 175-year sentence for intentionally misdiagnosing roughly 533 healthy patients with cancer to line his pockets with money
mxZny TIL of Chief Buffalo Hump. His Nʉmʉ tekwapu (Comanche) name, properly transliterated, was Po-cha-na-quar-hip which meant "erection that won't go down".
xVkmk TIL the story of FedEx's founder, Frederick Smith, submitting his business plan as a term paper and receiving a failing grade with an admonition that it would never work, is a myth. He dimly remembers he got about a C, mostly because "it wasn't a well-thought-out paper."
e0Abg TIL that a Spanish double agent, Juan Pujol Garcia got medals for spying from both Nazi Germany and the British Empire. He ran a fake spy network in London for Germany and recruited 27 fictitious agents all on German dime to provided them with fake intelligence during WW2.