› added 6 years ago

99

TIL Douglas Ginsburg withdrew his nomination to the US Supreme Court after it was discovered he smoked pot with his Harvard Law School students. Anthony Kennedy was the replacement nominee.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

E1bm0 TIL that Mississippi had no official state flag from 1904 to 2001 due to a legislative oversight. In 1906, Mississippi repealed all general laws that were not reenacted by the new code. The flag statute was inadvertently omitted.
4X0o TIL A former Italian Porn star became a politician and continued to make adult movies while a member of parliament
aLJb TIL: Homer Simpson Figured Out Higgs Boson 14 Years Before Scientists
4kNXN TIL about Confederados- Descendants of Southerners who fled to Brazil after the Civil War
R77O9 TIL in the Soviet Union between 1946-1964 there was a thriving black market for bootleg recordings made from discarded x-rays.