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TIL A woman was arrested for possession and delivery of 31.5 grams of cocaine, 126 grams of high-grade marijuana, 29 tablets of Ecstasy, an undisclosed amount of methamphetamine and 60 hits of LSD. She is also the 19-year-old daughter of a United States DEA Special Agent.

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e0b8g TIL Muhammad Ali talked a suicidal man off the ledge in 1981 and stopped him from taking his own life
4kO7a TIL: William R. King is the only U.S. Vice President to take the oath of office on foreign soil. King had tuberculosis and had traveled to Cuba to regain his health. Since he couldn't be in DC to take the oath, Congress passed an act that allowed him to be sworn in near Matanzas, Cuba.
VP8m TIL that someone made a adult version of the cozy coupe that can go 70mph
9wxXM TIL that Sylvia Plath's novel The Bell Jar, originally published in 1963 under the pseudonym "Victoria Lucas", was not published under Plath's name until 1967 and was not published in the United States until 1971, eight years after her death.
DD6v TIL that in 1948 a DC radio station asked ambassadors what they’d like for Christmas. The French ambassador said “world peace”, the Russian said “freedom from the enslavement of imperialism”, and the Brit said “Well, it’s very kind of you to ask. I’d quite like a box of crystallised fruit.”