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TIL That the president does not actually have to “pardon the turkey”, he can still ask to have it cooked for him

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e57k TIL Stephen King’s lawyers had to buy the van that hit King in 1999 to keep it from appearing on eBay.
6xmJ TIL that Johnson & Johnson knew their baby powder product caused ovarian cancer in some consumers, but sold it anyway. A victim successfully sued for $70 million but J&J still maintained that their baby powder was “perfectly safe”.
6MJ TIL Bill Bailey was the first person to be recorded doing the Moonwalk, not MJ. [12:53]
DbPP TIL forgetting to put a washer on before a nut caused a plane to explode
b9lbp TIL of the JFK Records Act, an act that states that all government documents related to the Kennedy assassination be publicly disclosed on October 26 2017.