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TIL President Truman was opposed to McCarthyism, which was a means of deplatforming suspected communists without technically violating the first amendment, largely by barring them from employment. "In a free country, we punish men for the crimes they commit, but never for the opinions they have."

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dvBQ TIL a biologist named Norman Borlaug developed a new disease-resistant strain of wheat modified to triple its yield. He is credited with saving 1 billion lives in India and won the 1970 Nobel Peace Prize.
PY18e TIL Josef Mengele's bones are used to teach forensic medicine in Brazil's University of São Paulo (USP), in the brazillian state where he lived from 1960 to 1976.
rMBx TIL A “billion” in England was defined as a million million (1,000,000,000,000) up until 1974.
7rPbX TIL Frank Abagnale (Whom the movie "Catch me if you can" was made after) was imprisoned in France, Sweden and the United States has worked for the FBI for over 41 years now and has turned down 3 Presidential Pardons
XErR6 TIL the US Bureau of Land Management only allows 20 people per day to visit The Wave rock formation in Arizona and you have to apply 4 months in advance for a permit.