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TIL In 1946 Orson Welles declined FDR’s suggestion to run for Democratic Senator for his home state of Wisconsin. The seat was won by Joseph McCarthy. Later Welles said “I didn’t believe the American people would ever vote for a divorced Hollywood actor.”

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wLJxM TIL David E. Durston, the director of 'I Drink Your Blood' and 'Manhole' is associated with two suspicious deaths. Durston had a fight with actress Carol Wayne, 3 days later she was found dead by fishermen. Durston visited actress Diane Linkletter at 3am, she jumped out a 6th story window at 9am.
X0JYR TIL that medicines are the third largest cause of death in the world after heart and cancer.
PYVVg TIL That Organ Donation Is Complicated
g1jW TIL in WW2, US soldiers often shaped pieces of plexiglass from downed planes into pistol grips, so they can put pics of their wives and girlfriends on their pistols (Pics in link)
Kr86 TIL In 1965, a Ukrainian farmer dug up the lower jawbone of a mammoth. Further excavations revealed the presence of 4 huts, made up of a total of 149 mammoth bones. These dwellings, dating back some 15,000 years, were determined to have been some of the oldest shelters ever built.