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TIL of Charles Krauthammer who was paralyzed from a diving accident in his first year of medical school at Harvard. He went on to graduate & become a psychiatrist. He later became a speechwriter for Vice President Walter Mondale & later won the Pulitzer Prize for his Washington Post column

KYELQ TIL the Burger King commercial song (Whopper Whopper Whopper Whopper Junior Double Triple Whopper, etc.) was based on a similar 1974 Burger King commercial "Have it your way"
WkPmN TIL that George S. Patton, before being temporarily appointed to the General Staff Corps in Boston, saved several children from drowning in August of 1923 when they fell off a yacht during a boating trip off Salem, MA. He was awarded the Silver Lifesaving Medal for this action.
oWaE TIL The Christian cross actually pre-dates Christianity in usage. It dates back to ancient Babylon and the worship of the sun-gods Mithra and Tammuz. It wasn’t used by Christians until fourth century after Emperor Constantine (a pagan sun-worshipper) had a vision of the cross in front of the sun.
4RZw TIL that cheap pink White Zinfandel aka “jug wine” was invented by mistake. Instead of dumping it, Sutter Home bottled it, marketed it and it’s been the 3rd top selling wine in the U.S. for more than 30 years, making the owners fabulously wealthy and angering wine snobs.
VMQ5Z TIL that in 1980, President Carter and Fidel Castro agreed to allow 125,000 Cubans to immigrate to America during an economic recession. Later, it was discovered that many of the emigrants had been sent directly from Cuban prisons and asylums.