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TIL in 1970, Hunter S. Thompson ran for sheriff of Aspen against an conservative, ex-military Republican incumbent. Thompson shaved his head totally bald, so he could refer to the competing party, who was sporting a close-cropped crewcut, as ‘my longhaired opponent’ in speeches and interviews.

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Kj04 TIL: Scott Adams (Dilbert) once wore “a wig and false mustache, [and] successfully impersonated a management consultant and tricked Logitech managers into adopting a mission statement that Adams described as "so impossibly complicated that it has no real content whatsoever”.“
LkGQV TIL the album Devil Without a Cause by Kid Rock sold 15 Million selling more copies than the albums Smash, Ten, Nothing's Shocking, Load, & Hybrid Theory.
X0pNQ TIL of Sweating Sickness. A mysterious illness that has only been recorded in England between 1485 and 1551 and seemed to affect almost exclusively wealthy men in their 30’s and 40’s. Death would usually occur mere hours after the onset of symptoms. It is unknown what it was.
yVQbX TIL TIL After he died Einstein’s family directed that he—meaning all of him—be cremated. Dr. Thomas Harvey, the pathologist who performed the autopsy, decided to remove Albert’s brain before releasing his body to the undertakers. He stored Einstein’s brain in his home for 20+ years in Mason jars
xVpE1 TIL 90% of the profits of the O.J. Simpson book 'If I did it" went to Fred Goldman, Ron Goldman's father. Goldman had sued Simpson in a wrongful death civil suit and was awarded $33.5 million, which had gone unpaid. In 2007, a judge awarded the rights to the book to the Goldman family as payment.