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TIL that it’s completely possible for a convicted felon to be president while behind bars

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908X TIL that during the Nigerian Civil War, the two sides agreed to a 48-hour cease fire because Pelé was in town to play an exhibition game, and everyone wanted to be free to watch it without having to worry about the war.
OGxeR TIL the first time a person was charged with drunk driving using an EV was on 10 September 1897
R7mpl TIL that not only did Brittany Murphy not die of drug OD/intoxication, but her widower husband died just 5 months later in the same manner: acute pneumonia and extreme anemia. To this day no one is sure what exactly caused their deaths.
P1eZg TIL TGI Fridays stopped requiring employees to wear flair after Office Space came out and customers began making jokes about the flair
a8GML TIL with a radius between 640 and 764 times that of the Sun, the surface of the red supergiant star Betelgeuse (the tenth-brightest star in the night), if it were at the centre of our Solar System, would lie beyond the asteroid belt and it would engulf the orbits of Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars.