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TIL Richard Nixon was offered a scholarship to Harvard , but wasn’t able to attend because his family lacked the money for him to travel there and to sustain his Room & Board .

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6kmZ TIL of James “Shanghai” Kelly, who in the 1800s kidnapped men and forced them to work on ships. One year on his birthday he announced he was hosting a free “booze cruise” to celebrate, served opium-laced whiskey to the attendees, then offloaded them onto waiting ships and got 100 men in one night
d86G8 TIL Dr. John R Brinkley successfully scammed the American public into believing he could transplant goat testicles into the scrotum of infertile men in order for them to conceive.
woKmE TIL The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird used an Astro-inertial Navigation System to track Stars and determine its position and altitude. At Mach 3, the navigation system was accurate enough to limit drift to 1,000 feet (300 meters) off course.
O1lL TIL Massachusetts Republicans are more liberal than Arkansas Democrats