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TIL the first broadcast presidential debate in the US was the Republican candidates’ debate in 1948. There was only one question, and each candidate had 20 minutes to answer it, then 8 ½ minutes each to rebut the other’s.

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a94Z TIL the precedent set in the Supreme Court case of Wickard v Filburn (which allows the government to stabilize the market by destroying excess food) was used in Gonzales v. Raich to give the federal government the power to criminalize medicinal marijuana despite state laws which may make it legal
4O9R TIL a Finnish man who joined the army after Russia invaded in WW2 ended up shooting and killing 505 Soviet soldiers with a sniper and earned himself the nickname White Death. He also got shot in the face and survived. He died at the age of 96 (2002).
vGox TIL: Marie Antoinette was the subject of countless cruel, and sometimes pornographic, pamphlets throughout her reign. Pornography in eighteenth century France took the form of crude caricatures, colorful cartoons, and even sophisticated etchings and engravings.
VMer4 TIL: since the population of London is greater than the maximum number of hairs that can be present on a human's head, the pigeonhole principle requires that there must be at least two people in London who have the same number of hairs on their heads.
x6101 TIL Between 43 and 42 BC, a commemorative coin was produced to celebrate the assassination of Julius Caesar on March 15th, 44 BC. Marcus Brutus is minted on the heads side, while the tails side has a pileus cap between two daggers.