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TIL the "snake oil salesman" is attributed to Clark Stanley who gained national attention marketing snake oil at the 1893 World's Fair. In 1916 a USDA analysis concluded there was no snake oil in his concoction at all, and that it was 99% mineral oil. He was fined $20 ($543.69 in 2022).

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d8Z8E TIL of Bishop Chrysostomos of Zakynthos. When ordered by the occupying Nazis to compile a list of Jews resident on the island, he handed over a piece of paper with a single name on it; his own.
0dmX5 TIL That one of the two Vice Presidents to resign was Spiro Agnew, who was VP under Richard Nixon, the only President to resign.
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