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TIL that US law has a specific definition for Straight Whiskey, that is different from how the term is used in bartending

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d8xwE TIL that a Japanese woman asked for divorce because husband didn't like the movie Frozen
e07Yk TIL that the famous mime Marcel Marceau was part of the French Resistance to the Nazi occupation during World War II. He saved hundreds of Jewish children in hiding by teaching them to communicate in mime, so they could converse silently. Marceau eventually got them to safety to Switzerland.
5jnr TIL Richard Nixon possessed 3,700 hours of taped conversations while he was in the White House. Very few people have listened to more than a few hours of them. The tapes “go a long way toward showing Nixon’s underappreciated geopolitical genius and how he became the victim of his own emotionalism.”
kOyxg TIL Dred Scott, following the infamous 1857 Supreme Court case that ruled he was neither free nor a citizen, was nonetheless freed along with his family by an abolitionist relative of his original owners less than three months later. He lived free less than two years before he died of tuberculosis.
xbPb TIL Hackers attacked an epilepsy forum posting hundreds of messages embedded with flashing animated gifs triggering migraine headaches and seizures in some users.