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TIL Cotton Eye Joe is a Swedish song, not American

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xVMW7 TIL Ulysses S. Grant invested his own money in his son's firm, but it was not enough to save the firm from failure. Essentially penniless, but compelled by a sense of personal honor, Grant repaid Vanderbilt with his Civil War mementos. The matter left Grant financially destitute.
QNKGp TIL about Lisa Nowak: an astronaut mother of 3, who drove 900 miles in adult diapers to kidnap the other woman in a bizarre space love triangle.
E4wp TIL that in 1945 a man survived the atomic blast at Hiroshima, dragged himself to an air-raid shelter, spent the night, caught the morning train so he could arrive at his job on time - in Nagasaki - where he survived another atomic blast.
ANGkx TIL that the Vatican sent an investigator to determine if the rumor about Shirley Temple being a 30 year old dwarf posing as a child was true
Wk7pB TIL in the Bible (Deut 14:26) God wanted his chosen people to spend their money on their hearts desire's including wine and hard liquor.