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TIL: The judge in the Terri Schiavo case had to be flown to a secret location to make a final decision to take her off life support, he wore a bullet-proof vest after her death and had cops on land and water guarding his home, and had to quit his church. He also was Jim Morrison's college roommate.

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bk4j TIL Russia owns an area of land the size of a small country in mainland Europe, with a population of 1 million. It is not connected to Russia by land and is sandwiched between Lithuania and Poland.
BrkQy TIL Zach Galifianakis had a two-week trial run as a writer on “SNL” before being let go. He wrote a sketch with Will Ferrell being the bodyguard of Britney Spears’s belly button that bombed so bad in the writer’s room that Tina Fey put her hand on his shoulder to comfort him.
V6Xm TIL George Washington’s Farewell address warned America about political parties and foreign influences tearing America apart.
b6Ml7 TIL the 1965 Spiegelman's Monster experiment demonstrated genetic replication and evolution in real-time at the molecular level, showing how natural selection could drive the emergence of more efficient genetic replication, even in an artificial setting.
9Y9rp TIL about the similarities between Jimi Hendrix and Kurt Cobain. Both put out three studio albums in four years that changed the trajectory of pop music, were left-handed guitarists, and died at the age of 27.