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TIL that Nelson Rockefeller, once Vice President of the United States, died at age 70 of a heart attack rumoured to be caused during sex with his 25 year old assistant. The New York Magazine quipped: “Nelson thought he was coming, but he was going”.

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XwlP TIL Swedish magician Lennart Green was disqualified from a large annual magic convention in 1988 because the judges accused him of using assistants in his act to shuffle the cards. 3 years later he performed the same act but instead had the judges shuffle the cards…he was awarded first place
grdjb TIL: The football huddle was first invented by a deaf college team (Gallaudet University) in 1894 to keep the opposing team (also deaf) from reading their plays which were signed in ASL
b9yGE TIL less than five per cent of the victims of transatlantic slavery were landed on the coast of the present-day United States. Most enslaved Africans were carried to the Caribbean (45 per cent) or to Brazil (45 per cent).
aRw9 Til I learned that theres a group in germany called Prevention Project Dunkelfeld that gives clinical and support services to Peadophiles that haven’t offended and want to control their sexual urges.
5van TIL Sir Isaac Newton was a member of parliament in the UK, but his only contribution to the debates was to request the window to be closed because of a cold draught