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TIL in 1993 Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders recommended that the Government study the idea of legalizing drugs and suggested that doing so might reduce violent crimes. She was fired about a week later by President Clinton.

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VMZwD TIL that Shirley Temple appears on the cover art of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band in three different places.
GAllJ TIL of the brutal match between Nigel Benn and Gerald McClellan. Benn was the underdog and was knocked down within the first minute, but he would turn the match around leaving McClellan with injuries that would end his career and leave him permanently disabled.
wLn18 TIL When Michael Caine got the script of the film Inception (2010), he was confused and didn't understand when is it a dream and when is reality. Christopher Nolan replied ‘Well, when you’re in the scene, it’s reality.’
0wgMj TIL if you find a lost wallet and place it in a USPS mailbox, it will be returned to the address on the ID found inside free of charge.
a8Ney TIL that after the Papal States were lost and Rome was annexed to Italy in 1870, the Pope became a self-imposed prisoner within the Vatican. This situation lasted until the Lateran Treaty in 1929, which established Vatican City as an independent sovereign entity.