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TIL: The Oakland Raiders gave JaMarcus Russell a blank DVD with the “gameplan” for homework. When asked what he thought, he lied and said “it looked good”

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woK0W TIL "to pull oneself up by one's bootstraps" is an example of an impossible task. The idiom dates at least to 1834, from the Workingman's Advocate: "It is conjectured that Mr. Murphee will now be enabled to hand himself over the Cumberland river or a barn yard fence by the straps of his boots.
OoYw4 TIL between 1999 and 2014, the suicide rate in the United States increased by 24%
PG8n TIL when John C Calhoun was discussing the secession of South Carolina, Andrew Jackson is alleged to have said “"John Calhoun, if you secede from my nation, I will secede your head from the rest of your body.”
GY4D4 TIl that the first use of the 'temporary insanity defense' in the U.S. WAS WHEN IN 1859, a Congressman SHOT AND KILLED a man who was having an affair with his wife. THE man killed was Philip Barton Key II,SON OF THE STAR spangled Banner author Francis Scott Key.
E1rN0 TIL The More Gender Equality, the Fewer Women in STEM. A new study explores a strange paradox: In countries that empower women, they are less likely to choose math and science professions.