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TIL that two attorneys general resigned on a single night, in protest after President Nixon asked them to fire an independent special prosecutor looking into the Watergate scandal. It became known as the Saturday Night Massacre

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jNAaQ TIL that Steve Carter, 35, found out he was a missing child. Carter, who was adopted at 4, found an age-progression image through missing children. He discovered he'd been kidnapped by his birth mother and placed in an orphanage. His biological father reported him missing over three decades earlier.
WB9d TIL that most pictures we see of “old” Einstein are many years after he published anything groundbreaking as his most noteworthy achievements are from his miracle year of 1905, when he was 26
vRyB TIL rats are capable of laughing.
Rvo8 TIL After WWII Japanese were tried, convicted and hung for war crimes committed against American POWs. Among those charges for which they were convicted was waterboarding.
KOVv6 TIL that the Kearney County Gazette reportedly displayed the skull of 19th-century serial killer Stephen Dee Richards in their window.