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TIL that movie trailers are so-called because they used to be played AFTER a movie

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pYRyQ TIL about James Clark McReynolds, who served as a Supreme Court justice from 1914 until 1941. He would not accept "Jews, drinkers, blacks, women, smokers, married or engaged individuals" as law clerks, did not speak to Justice Louis Brandeis for three years, and was nicknamed "Scrooge."
4koJg TIL The Daily Beast is named after a fictional newspaper in Evelyn Waugh's novel Scoop.
QNRRe TIL in September 2011, the state of Texas abolished all special last meal requests for death row inmates.
RLAj TIL that until 2005, Toronto had a St. James-Bond Church, formed by the 1928 merger of the Bond Street Congregational Church and the St. James Square Presbyterian Church.
BgdYb TIL that in addition to names like “Hope”, “Felicity”, and “Prudence”, Puritans also named their children things like “Jesus-Christ-came-into-the-world- to-save”, “Damned”, and “Fly-fornication”.