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TIL the creator of MyPillow was a heavy crack user and his dealers once denied him sales cause he had been up for 14 straight days

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x6vdB TIl Christopher Nolan’s uncle is in Batman begins as a board member
4kexN TIL in 1893, John Nance Garner won the election for county judge of Uvalde County, Texas against Mariette "Ettie" Rheiner. The electoral opponents then started dating and married in 1895. John Garner would go on to serve as U.S. Vice President from 1933 to 1941.
yQW58 TIL that in early 2019, when the US government shutdown, hundreds of Canadian air traffic controllers sent American air traffic controllers pizza, in a show of solidarity at a time when the FAA controllers were not being paid.
9wNlD TIL Meriwether Lewis, of the Lewis & Clark expedition, mysteriously died on Oct. 10, 1809, just three years after their mission's end. His close friends, including Thomas Jefferson, believed he committed suicide...but his family claimed he was murdered. The true cause of death is still contested.
xVK80 TIL that due to English laws regarding cheese, Stilton the cheese cannot be manufactured in the village of Stilton, from where the cheese originally got its recipe and name.