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TIL : Spiro Agnew was the highest US official to receive a felony

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GoXN TIL that ritchie valens was only 17 on the day the music died and he recorded “La Bamba” when he was 16.
5YREp TIL on May 6 2010 the US Stock Market had its single largest drop in its 110 year history, with the Dow Jones plunging nearly 1000 points and the market losing over $1,000,000,000,000 dollars. It recovered 36 minutes later.
d8AYr TIL Utah’s Great Salt Lake is a remnant of a much larger lake that drained in a single, catastrophic event 14,000 years ago.
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kWw7 TIL in Idaho, at least 12 children of faith healers have died as a result of medically-preventable conditions since 2011 but as of November 2014 no charges have been filed. Idaho’s religious exemption law describes prayer as a spiritual “treatment” that can act as a legal substitute for medical care