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QlG9 TIL programmer Clint Curtis testified under oath that voting machine source code was used to manipulate elections.
wolp8 TIL in 1998 Oscar ceremony, Bart the bear, a grizzly bear went on stage and gave an envelope to Mike Myers
eG5b TIL Charlie (from the TV show It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia) was right. The Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918 makes it illegal to own a hummingbird in the United States.
yQpBe TIL After Ford left the White House in 1977, he privately justified his pardon of Nixon by carrying in his wallet a portion of the text of Burdick v. United States, a Supreme Court decision which states that a pardon carries an imputation of guilt and that acceptance carries a confession of guilt.
BXGr TIL “Kansas” is a mispronunciation of French spelling, and should be pronounced like the last 2 syllables of “Arkansas.”