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TIL Kristen Dunst did a cover of turning japanese

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yQOJp TIL of Queen Isabella; frustrated, humiliated and tired of her husband; fled England, tricked him to send their son, invaded England with her lover (enemy and fugitive of her husband) and defeated him.
b9G1N TIL that in 1951 Matt Ingram was convicted of “reckless eyeballing,” the improper looking at a white person, with sexual intent, in North Carolina. His accuser testified that he had scared her when he looked at her from a distance of about 75 feet. Ingram spent two and half years in prison.
8eQJV TIL of Stanley Adams who became a whistleblower against Hoffmann-LaRoche in 1973. His name leaked, and was sued for industrial espionage facing 20 years in prison (serving only 6 months). During the trial his wife commited suicide. In 1994 he was caught hiring an assassin to murder his second wife
wROE TIL that after his presidency, Harry Truman refused to join any corporate boards or do commercial endorsements, feeling that using the presidency for financial gain would diminish the integrity of the office. Congress eventually passed the Former Presidents Act to pay him a pension.
KYZw TIL that President Bush wrote personal letters to the families of over 4,000 troops who died in the two wars.