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TIL only 15 senators have been expelled, 14 were during Civil War for supporting Confederacy.

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8aD94 TIL Harriet Tubman suffered a violent head injury as a child causing her to frequently slip into into sleep like states. These would produce vivid dreamlike hallucinations that Tubman interpreted as messages from god, to devote her life to freeing southern slaves through the Underground Railroad.
awdgJ TIL Members of the Parliament of the UK are technically not permitted to resign; instead, they apply to be appointed 'Steward and Bailiff' of one of two obscure places which are an 'office of profit under the Crown'. Being paid by the Crown disqualifies from being MP.
441R TIL the world could run out of helium in 25 years…bad news for MRI machines, radiation detection machines and clowns
NJr8 TIL that the name ‘Clint Eastwood’ is an anagram for 'Old West Action’.
m9dp TIL that King George V of England had a dragon tattoo on his arm