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TIL Canada’s 1st Prime Minister ‘Sir John A. Macdonald’ was so hammered during one of the first election debates that he started vomiting violently and had to be sent home.

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KOLjE TIL: Merrows are Irish mermaids (there are mermen too) who wear little red hats which they need to navigate between watery and terrestrial realms. Capture the hat, capture the merrow.
R79J9 TIL Computer hacker Kevin Mitnick was forced to spend 8 months of his prison sentence in solitary confinement because officials believed he could use a payphone to start nuclear war by whistling to NORAD modems.
mxK7R TIL Yahoo Serious tried to sue the search engine Yahoo! for trademark infringement. The case was thrown out as Serious couldn't prove he sells products or services under the name Yahoo so couldn't prove that he suffered harm or confusion due to the search engine
kJbB TIL that Nazi Germany had made detailed plans to ship 4 million Jews to Madagascar.
GYmQE TIL of two-time Oscar-winner Glenda Jackson, who quit acting in 1992 to join the British parliament. She became a junior minister in the Blair government, and had aspirations to be Mayor of London. In 2015, at the age of 78, she quit politics, reverted to acting, and since won a Tony Award