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TIL Joe Biden was accused of plagiarizing and finished in the bottom 10% of his class during law school, dodged the draft 5 times, considered himself a Republican, and as a senator, his staffers took bets on how long he would last.

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kwM4 TIL an abandoned lifeboat was found on the world’s most remote island in 1964. Its origin is still a mystery.
kOxwd TIL that John Mulaney started drinking at 13 years old and that the psychiatrist his parents made him go see as a teenager once described him as “one part nice kid, one part gorilla that wants to kill the other half.”
rxgd TIL that Aldous Huxley, author of Brave New World, was at the forefront of the counterculture’s experimentation with psychedelics, which led to his 1954 work The Doors of Perception. Dying from cancer, he asked his wife on 22 November 1963 to inject him with 100 µg of LSD. He died later that day.
QpV9 TIL 19th Century actor Richard Mansfield was so convincing in a stage production of Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Londoners flooded police with requests to investigate whether he was Jack the Ripper.
gKEb TIL the USA space budget exceeds the rest of the world’s combined