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TIL I learned Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King considered Adolf Hilter a best friend

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KNMJ TIL your SnapChat information is available to law enforcement up to 9 months after you send anything, without a court order. (90 days regular limit + preservation + renewal)
QN8op TIL that some US states, such as Massachusetts, Michigan, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, and South Carolina, still have laws that prohibit blasphemy to varying degrees. However, the First Amendment protects freedom of speech, rendering these laws obsolete and unenforceable.
eZxL TIL of an actor named Del Close who died in 1999. In his will he bequeathed his skull to a local theatre so he could still play the part of Yorick, a dead court jester, in productions of Hamlet. However, no one wanted to remove his head after death, robbing him of one of his final wishes.
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