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TIL: prosecutors have absolute immunity for falsification of evidence and the coercion of witnesses

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vPgOx TIL that Richard Manuel of The Band once lived in the barn for the horse who played on “Mr Ed, The Talking Horse “.
dLX9 TIL Pumpernickle is German for “Devil’s Fart.” This name actually predates the bread.
4Xw5a TIL Abraham Lincoln was brought secretly into Washington D.C. for his inauguration due to an assassination conspiracy in Baltimore.
1e6X TIL the film Wag the Dog, a film about a president who creates a fake war to cover-up a sex scandal, was release one month before the Lewinski scandal broke.
rNYjo TIL that Neanderthal DNA makes up roughly 1.8% of Asian genomes, 1.7% of European genomes, and 0.5% of African genomes