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TIL: J. Edgar Hoover opposed Japanese Internment Camps. Saying the decision was “based on public and political pressure, not factual data”.

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0d94v TIL about the case of Doe vs Moe in which a man sued his ex-girlfriend for negligence after she “landed awkwardly on the plaintiff [during sex] thereby causing him to suffer a penile fracture”. He lost.
vPmYK TIL soul music pioneer Curtis Mayfield was paralysed from the neck down during a live performance in 1990, and still managed to produce an album in 1996
N7nKe TIL about Clement Vallandigham, a lawyer defending a man accused of murder, accidentally shot himself and died while demonstrating how the victim might have accidentally shot himself. His client was cleared.
BVEW TIL that before becoming “The Science Guy”, Bill Nye was a stand-up comedian
kO8vg TIL a CIA project called 'Operation Paperclip' allowed hundreds of Nazi scientists to live freely in the US providing them cushy jobs and a high standard of living. Many of these scientists have committed horrendous war crimes, like experimenting on live humans with chemical and biological weapons