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TIL 64 of 112 (57%) former Supreme Court Justices never obtained a law degree

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oRprW TIL After Colonel Shaw was killed, Confederates buried him in a mass grave to insult his leadership of Black soldiers. When Union troops tried to recover his body, his father wrote, "We would not have his body removed from where it rests with his brave soldiers."
BrNve TIL that in 1962, at the University of Texas at Austin, Janis Joplin was voted "ugliest man on campus"
0gYj TIL Eddy Murphy, John Candy, and John Belushi were originally supposed to play the main roles in Ghostbusters but Murphy and Candy declined the roles and Belushi died before the script was finished.
GAY4N TIL that Mark Cuban co-founded a company with the aim of making prescription drugs radically more affordable in the USA
b9K8j TIL: Sculptor Selma Burke, a black woman, never received credit for her portrait of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, which was later adapted and featured on the US dime. It is widely accepted that the white John R. Sinnock's obverse design on the Roosevelt dime was adapted from Burke's work.