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TIL that prior to the 25th Amendment, there was no mechanism in the United States Constitution for filling vice presidential vacancies. The US has been without a vice president on 16 occasions for a cumulative 37 years.

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4kk9w TIL that Mark Cuban was fired for making a sale. Living in an apartment with no bed he made a sale for $1500 commission and was fired that day. It was the last time he ever worked for someone else.
WkXkY TIL that "Cracklin Rosie" is actually a bottle of wine. Neil Diamond got the idea for the song from an old folk story about an Indian tribe with more men than women. The guys who didn't have girls would spend time with the bottle.
QX59 TIL the word Dinner comes from the old French word Disner, which meant “Breakfast”.
D171Y TIL an actress from Scarface freaked out during a bloody scene. She went home & claimed she had seen something she shouldn’t have. Shortly afterwards, she disappeared & was never seen again.
D1GgJ TIL about Henry Tandey, the most highly decorated British private of World World I, who also became famous for supposedly not killing Adolf Hitler, then a German soldier, when he encountered him in Marcoing, France. However, Tandey's biographer and others believe the story is an urban legend.