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TIL Orval Faubus, who had opposed the integration of the Little Rock Nine as Governor of Arkansas, later endorsed civil rights activist Jesse Jackson for President in 1984 and 1988.

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jN58E TIL it is possible to build his own life-sized lego house
loZpN TIL Eratosthenes calculated the circumference of the earth ~2200 years ago, and was damn close to the accepted value today. Let Carl Sagan tell you a story.
QJbra TIL Alfred Hitchcock's movie "Rear Window" was inspired by two actual murder cases. The first was a doctor who killed his wife, told friends she went to America. The second was a man who dismembered his pregnant girlfriend, throwing pieces of her body out a train window.
woZZJ TIL Canada has their own Mississippi River unrelated and unconnected to the American Mississippi River.
YpOGv TIL of Jose Mujica, the president of Uruguay from 2010-2015, he was known as the "the world's humblest head of state" as he gave away around 90% of his $12,000 monthly salary to charity. He also led an austere lifestyle; he lived on a farm than in the presidential palace and drove a 1987 VW beetle.