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TIL As a teenager Patrick Stewart worked as a newspaper reporter and obituary writer. However after a year his employer gave him an ultimatum to choose acting or journalism. Stewart had been attending rehearsals during work time and then inventing the stories he reported.

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01Mp TIL that in 2001, Mark Rich received a presidential pardon after refusing to pay $48 million in taxes. He had made substantial donations to the president’s wife’s political campaign. President Carter called it the most disgraceful pardon in US history.
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