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TIL John McCain put forward a bill (later overturned by Citizen’s United) that planned to take money out of politics

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p8EBN TIL Noah Webster thought "Beauty" should be pronounced "Booty" (From his 1828 dictionary and Bill Bryson's The Mother Tongue)
b6Bep TIL it was so difficult for the FBi to believe Hitler had committed suicide that they funded a secret program by millions of dollars to find him, with the program being shut down only in 1947
7rvGX TIL George Lucas helped his friend Francis Ford Coppola shoot and edit The Godfather.
Ey5P TIL not only are there radar detectors, but radar detector-detectors, and even radar detector-detector-detectors
GA5w7 TIL of a disgruntled designer for SimCopter (1996) that created an Easter Egg that would spawn "shirtless men in Speedo trunks who hugged and kissed each other" in great numbers on certain dates, such as Friday the 13th. But the RNG he created for it malfunctioned, leading them to appear frequently