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TIL Douglas Ginsburg's supreme court nomination collapsed in 1987 because he smoked marijuana a few times in college.

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9Yn17 TIL that the cameraperson for the famous slo-mo footage of Evel Knievel's failed Cesar's Palace fountains jump (link to vid in comments, it's a doozy) was none other than Golden Globe winning actress Linda Evans of Dynasty fame
awbW9 TIL of Judy Buenoano aka 'Black Widow'. She had been convicted of poisoning her husband with arsenic, drowning her son, and attempting to kill her fiancé with a car bomb. In 1998, she was the first woman to be executed in the state of Florida since 1848
aw0VN TIL the USSR changed to a six day week to force Christians to work on Sunday and made Christmas a national day of work
n04W TIL Stephen King’s considers his first novel is, “The Long Walk.” It’s about 100 boys in a grueling walking contest where the winner is the last one to survive a never ending walk.
Ap4l TIL In the 1996 Paralympics in Atlanta, 11 athletes were sent home after cheating their way into favorable classes. At the Sydney games in 2000, the Spanish mentally handicapped basketball team won the gold medal. It later turned out that 10 players were completely healthy