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TIL the United States Secret Service was founded to investigate and combat counterfeit U.S. currency. Only after the assassination of McKinley in 1901 was it tasked with protecting the President.

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lo5ON TIL in the 1970's, the head of a Vegas union ordered the bombings of several nonunion establishments. When he refused to pay his bombers for their work, the union boss was abducted and his body was later found in the desert outside of Las Vegas.
R7PV8 TIL that a marrow is a courgette that has been allowed to grow longer.
9jmX TIL the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that competitive cheerleading is NOT a sport and thus, can not be used in place of another women’s sport under Title IX.
6EYjY TIL: Diem, the US-backed Vietnamese president, got 605,025 votes from 450,000 voters in Saigon in 1955
x67p1 TIL that slavery was still legal in the British Empire as late as 1964 (in the Federation of South Arabia, previously the Aden Colony, now part of Yemen)