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MLX0 TIL: For over a decade Sen. John McCain has been trying to get a presidential posthumous pardon for black boxer Jack Johnson, who in 1912 was imprisoned for transporting a white girlfriend across state lines.
P7Yw TIL based on a 1986 statute, that the US government considers communication older than 180-days (i.e., old emails, neglected mailboxes) to have been abandoned by the intended recipient and can sift through those forsaken documents without a warrant or cause for suspicion
jRKN TIL that poor people are more generous than the wealthy