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D10vg TIL that a Louisiana man, Timothy Jackson, is serving life in prison for shoplifting a $159 jacket.
AxRo TIL Richard Nixon said in August 1970 about same-sex marriage: “I can’t go that far; that’s the year 2000! Negroes [and whites], okay. But that’s too far!”
vdl8 TIL the highest-paid US federal employee is the CEO of the Tennessee Valley Authority, who makes 14 times as much as the US president.