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TIL that President Richard Nixon considered pardoning himself at the height of the Watergate scandal.

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Wk7e9 TIL that a man flipped off a woman while entering a freeway, and proceeded to have his middle finger shot off by her with a .357-caliber revolver.
MemVA TIL I learned "Just a gigolo" by David Lee Roth is actually a very old song that has a tonne of historical significance dating as far back as World War I
b69xN TIL about the Gatun Dam. It was built to facilitate construction of the Panama Canal and was the largest damn in the world at the time.
xN60 TIL that a man named Armand Hammer coincidentally ended up on the board of directors for Arm & Hammer
Ax47 TIL autism is not actually on the rise. Studies have shown that the apparent increase in autism cases stems from changes in how physicians define “autism”.