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TIL Justice Frankfurter disliked Chief Justice Vinson to such a degree that when the issue of segregation came before the Court and Chief Justice Vinson, a segregationist, suddenly died; Frankfurter remarked on it as: "the first solid piece of evidence I've ever had that there really is a God"

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75yM TIL that when King William II of England was ‘accidentally’ shot through the lung with an arrow, his body was abandoned by the nobles, found by a peasant and returned to Winchester Cathedral by farmers.
XERBj TIL during the winter, people spend more time indoors with the windows sealed, so they are more likely to breathe the same air as someone who has the flu and thus contract the virus.Days are shorter during the winter, and lack of sunlight leads to low levels of vitamin D decreasing immunity to virus
R5R7Q TIL; That Peter Jackson director of Lord of the Rings - Built an entire movieset replica of Frodo baggins hobbit hole house "bag-end" underneath his new zealand mansion, and you get there via a secret wine cellar tunnel; Not only that, but Danny Divito also visits him regularly to hang out there.
WkEjN TIL that when Tom Green won a Golden Rasberry Award for "Freddy Got Fingered", he showed up in a white cadillac, rolled out his own red carpet, told the crowd he wanted to win the award, then pulled out and played a harmonica until security dragged him offstage.
D1EMD TIL Spanish-Filipino Marcelo A. Palmero the 13th Prime Minister of Spain became Prime Minister in 1897 during the Philippine Revolution and became Prime Minister two more times after Spain lost the Philippines as a colony.