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TIL Benjamin Franklin helped to create Impeachment Clause of US Constitution as he recognized that if a president were to “render himself obnoxious”, the logical yet less ideal alternative to an impeachment would be an assassination

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ne7Z7 After you die, some things in your body keep on ticking. Genes active after death may be important for transplant success and calculating time of death.
kmX7 TIL all of the JFK files are scheduled to be opened by the end of October.
9wpxr TIL about Ettore Majorana, a brilliant young physicist who vanished without a trace in 1938. He was responsible for many discoveries in particle physics but never published them, leading others to get the credit.
BrGDK TIL Critics responded negatively to the use of nudity in the pilot episode of Stargate SG1, which was filmed at Showtime's insistence. Those scenes were cut or edited in future releases on DVD and TV.
dD76Q Today I learned that Lucille Ball sent flowers to Carol Burnett on the latter's birthday every year. The last year Burnett received flowers from Ball was 1989. In that year, Burnett's birthday was also the day of Ball's death.