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TIL death row prisoners of Tennessee can choose between death by lethal injection or death by electric chair

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YNAB TIL two time Medal of Honor recipient Major General Smedley Butler wrote: “I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.”
yQpBe TIL After Ford left the White House in 1977, he privately justified his pardon of Nixon by carrying in his wallet a portion of the text of Burdick v. United States, a Supreme Court decision which states that a pardon carries an imputation of guilt and that acceptance carries a confession of guilt.
9YP7M TIL BBC World Service carried out a poll in 19 different nations. Only 4 nations believed the US was doing more good than harm in the world (US, Nigeria, Kenya, and India). All European nations had an overwhelming negative opinion of the US. The worst was Russia. Second was Spain.
7r5nx TIL The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (book) is 42 years old today
epd1k TIL that the rapper Puff Daddy co-headlined an AIDS fundraiser following a charity basketball game at the City College of New York with fellow rapper Heavy D that ended up getting oversold and resulted in a crowd crush that killed 9 people and injured 29.