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TIL there are only 2 Nascar drivers to graduate from college

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78WJx TIL despite being silent about Joseph McCarthy in public, President Dwight D. Eisenhower started a secret campaign that ultimately ended the Senator's career.
e0MB4 TIL about Pitchcapping. It was a British form of torture used on suspected Irish rebels in 1798. They would heat up tar and pour it on their heads allow it to cool and tear their scalp off.
ADOw7 TIL Elvis Presley actually died from an autoimmune disorder caused from multiple traumatic brain injuries
oR7mR TIL there is clear evidence that one of the largest volanic eruptions in human history took place in the mid-15th century, but scientists still have no idea where it happened
dDv9r TIL that in 2009, Burger King launched the “Whopper Sacrifice” campaign, offering a free Whopper to anyone who deleted 10 Facebook friends—and then notifying those friends why they were deleted.