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TIL Carly Simon is an heiress of Simon & Schuster

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16De8 TIL former US President Jimmy Carter (RIP) campaigned in an Allman Brothers Band t-shirt, studied Bob Dylan lyrics, and listened to Wille Nelson songs while dealing with the Iran Hostage Crisis. President Carter's son even smoked weed on the roof of the White House with Willie.
X0GY8 TIL About 130 million adults in the U.S. — half of Americans between the ages of 16 and 74 — have low literacy skills
Bv6K TIL that over 50 WWE wrestlers that competed in 1990s are now dead
7VBL TIL the term “Cold War” was first invented by George Orwell, author of the book satirising stalinism, “Animal Farm”.
A1yB TIL The word ‘Freelance’ was first used in the 1820 book 'Ivanhoe’. It referred to a knight with no allegiance.