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TIL that Ron Schur became obsessed with the salad dressing at The Galley Restaurant. He kept asking what was in it and every time he was told it was a secret. Finally, an annoyed waitress asked him, "If you want to know so badly, why don’t you buy the fucking place?" In 1989, he did.

nej5G TIL that President Carter once told a joke during a speech to a Japanese audience which caused the audience to erupt in laughter. Impressed, he asked how the interpreter managed to get such a laugh. The interpreter admitted that he had said, “President Carter told a funny story. Everyone must laugh”
rRmKo TIL that Gail Halvorsen, a US pilot, would drop candies for German children in late 1940s Berlin. To not injure them, he would fabricate parachutes out of handkerchiefs and tied them to the rations.
R4ej TIL of ‘Ama’ - female divers of Japan who would traditionally freedive in cold water for hours in just a loincloth (now wetsuits)
6ELXw TIL that there is a cin for sale called #7 Coin in Historic Moments in Global History Collection, Coin BE BEST, Book Title is "Genius Makes Its Own Rules" and Includes a Published 50 Page Print & Digital Monograph A Study in Genius: Presidency of Donald J. Trump.
xn4w TIL that one of the least-remembered US Presidents, Millard Fillmore, was effectively sold as a child by his destitute father into a kind of indentured servitude (bordering on child slavery). He eventually bought himself from his master for $30 and walked 100 miles to his home at age 14