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TIL 60% of Americans spend equal to or more than their monthly income

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Oow17 TIL no law has been passed officially making the Union Jack the national flag of the United Kingdom.
Y7v5W TIL Ulysses S. Grant, who was running for a third term in 1880, led on 35 ballots for the nomination. It wasn't until James G. Blaine and John Sherman shifted their supporters toward James A. Garfield that Grant subsequently lost on the 36th ballot.
KOPlE TIL in the 1980 David Lynch film The Elephant Man, Mel Brooks served as a producer but was intentionally left uncredited so audiences did not expect a comedy going in
65oX TIL that Leonardo DiCaprio spent part of his childhood in Germany with his grandparents and speaks German fluently.
N7daE TIL that before the coup d'état in 1953 Mohammad Mosaddegh was regarded as the leading champion of secular democracy and resistance to foreign domination in Iran’s modern history, and that the coup partly took place because Iran nationalized its oil industry.