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TIL some sixty-six years ago, in the midst of another political firestorm, a senator named Robert C. Hendrickson, a New Jersey Republican, came up with a proposal for another path: a constitutional amendment that would allow Americans, by popular vote, to recall a President.

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QNrge TIL there is still one actor from the 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz alive, Caren Marsh Doll, who was Judy Garland's stand-in, and it is in fact her feet seen in the film when Dorothy taps the heels of the slippers together. Caren is 105 years old.
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vlpD TIL that in 1967 a history teacher performed an experiment with his class to find out why people allowed the Nazis to commit terrible acts. He brainwashed them using Nazi ideals and at the end of the week had several hundred teenage followers under his complete control before he revealed the truth