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TIL since government rules prevented spending more than $750 for a single automobile, FDR did not have an armored car. So he used Al Capone’s.

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69Xdw TIL King Alfred was the only English king to be named “the Great” for fighting off viking invasions and introducing social reforms, and he did it all while suffering from Crohn's Disease ·
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