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TIL Penn and Teller sell the Bill of Rights in metal, so when you go through airport security, they’ll have to “take away your Bill of Rights”

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E1WYd TIL in 1932 both Douglas MacArthur and Dwight Eisenhower used six M1917 tanks and an infantry division to run over and drive out WW1 veterans who occupied DC. They were demanding to be paid their bonus they received in 1924 but which could not be redeemed until 1948.
aGJL TIL that E.T., Blade Runner, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn, Poltergeist, and The Thing were all released on the same month and competed with each other at the box office.
d8Ed7 TIL: Pirates were generally considered by the English government to be reserve naval forces, and were sometimes given active encouragement such as knighthoods. Royal pardons were regularly issued and the public's opinion of pirates was often favorable, some considering them akin to patrons.
0NN1 TIL that mysteriously dark regions on Mars are made of glass
yKYw TIL the writer Roald Dahl’s mission, as a spy for the British government, was to seduce powerful US women in order to gather useful intelligence. For this reason he had to sleep with countless high society women.