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TIL despite being silent about Joseph McCarthy in public, President Dwight D. Eisenhower started a secret campaign that ultimately ended the Senator's career.

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rMA4 TIL After a doctor named Richard Barista was slapped with divorce papers from his wife, he sued her for the return of the kidney he gave her 8 years ago. He requested her to pay $1.5 million for the organ he donated and insisted his cash-for-kidney claim was a direct result of his wife’s behaviour
9w4mG TIL that a lottery scratch game called Cool Cash was pulled from the market after player complaints. The scratch card made ti that you get money if you got lower then the target temperature and people were saying they didn't get any money even though they got -6 or -7 and the temperature was -8.
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0d0r1 TIL Hitler, as Chancellor of Germany in 1933, implemented policies to improve the economy, including privatization of state-owned industries, import tariffs, and autarky. This led to reduced foreign trade, resulting in rationing of consumer goods like poultry, fruit, and clothing for many Germans.
yRQv TIL that the famous New York City tourist attraction, Wall St.’s Charging Bull, cost $360,000 to build, was placed illegally in the middle of the night in 1989 after a stock market crash, was impounded, only to be returned to the streets due to public outcry