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TIL Georgia governor Eugene Talmadge was elected to a fourth term in 1946 but died before inauguration—triggering the state’s infamous “three governors” crisis.

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BAVr TIL in 1152 while leading the defense for Newbury Castle, John Marshal was told to surrender immediately or his child would be hanged. John replied that he should go ahead saying, “I still have the hammer and the anvil with which to forge still more and better sons!”
xVGvk TIL that Eartha Kitt was invited to a lunch by President Johnson at the White House. She was asked about Viet Nam and instead of giving a polite response, ranted about how horrible it was. This lead to the CIA trying to ruin her career and an effective US blacklist for over ten years
78a1b TIL Russian Czar Ivan the Terrible beat his daughter-in-law so badly that she miscarried her baby. When his son was angry about the beating, Ivan struck his heir in the head so fiercely that he died 5 days later.
VXmm Today I learned, that the NBC peacock was used in order to obtain the correct frequency on color TVs when they first came out.
e0ER4 TIL the idea for a military Command Information Center ("CIC"), was taken “specifically, consciously, and directly” from the spaceship Directrix in the Lensman novels of E. E."Doc" Smith in a surge of refitting and retraining during 1943 after the battle of the Coral Sea through the Solomon Islands