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TIL of former Congressman Leo Ryan (D), who was assassinated in the events leading up to the Jonestown Massacare

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8NGa TIL that during the 2008 presidential election, author Stephen King referred to Glenn Beck as “Satan’s mentally challenged younger brother.” In the same year he also spoke out against a Massachusetts bill that would restrict the sale of violent video games to minors.
m18ZE TIL about Spiro Mounds, a pre-European North American city where so much well preserved treasure was found it was called "an American King Tut's Tomb" It was bought by a mining company for $100, looted, mined, and blown up by dynamite.
neWwo TIL Study Shows We Are Born Creative Geniuses But The ‘Education’ System Dumbs Us Down
wLvgP TIL about John Morrissey, who went from being a famous gambler during the Gold Rush to a heavyweight boxing champ to the boss of the Irish mob to a New York senator to Grand Sachem of Tammany Hall, which basically controlled NY politics for the Gilded Age, all before dying at 47 years old.
gr04A TIL Luddites were protesting working conditions and low pay, not technology