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TIL only one US President (Woodrow Wilson) has had a PhD

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ADMga TIL Nintendo created a video game based on the Popeye comic strip, but could not acquire licensing rights for the characters. Rather than scrap the work that was done, it released with a new cast - a plumber, his girlfriend, and a gorilla - and was renamed "Donkey Kong" after the game's antagonist.
gMOlL TIL that Ulysses S Grant got a speeding ticket on a horse and was fined $5
Yp0aZ TIL: a Swedish man who received an artificial heart successfully dodged charges for tax evasion because he was considered legally to have died when his natural heart was removed.
NANJ TIL that Haitian leader François Duvalier won a blatantly rigged presidential election in 1961 (with all votes cast for him), after which he declared: “I accept the people’s will. As a revolutionary, I have no right to disregard the will of the people.”
9KdQ TIL in 2007 Islamic scholars in Malaysia spent a year working out how the country’s first astronaut could pray facing Mecca. He was allowed to save his Ramadan fasting till his return