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TIL Winston Churchill had so much respect for the American Constitution that he called it the best constitution ever written in English

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l7Yxr TIL that the first colour frames in a film were used to be hand painted, by female artists.
9PEM TIL Walter Reed earned 2 MDs before his 20th brithday. He joined the Army because no one took him seriously because of his youth.
LMPP TIL: Dancing in nightclubs is illegal in Japan
eEgL TIL that in 1998 CNN ran a false news report, accusing American soldiers of using sarin gas in a rescue mission titled, “Operation Tailwind” during the Vietnam War. The report would later go on to become the basis of a storyline in HBO’s The Newsroom.
Meo9A TIL Loraine Allison was the only child from first class to die on the Titanic. She had remained with her parents on the ship looking for her baby brother who had unknown to them already safely left in a lifeboat with his nanny.