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TIL Governor Al Smith and candidate for President in 1928 dropped out of school at 14 and never attended high school or college

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oBDAA TIL of Nathaniel Gordon, the only person in the United States to be executed for attempting to sell human beings. Abraham Lincoln refused to commute Gordon’s sentence, despite thousands of people petitioning him for clemency.
WkLmL TIL that an elderly woman slept through the People’s Temple mass suicide in Jonestown. She woke up the next morning to discover the bodies of over 900 members of the cult.
BjBx TIL the Arctic Shrew is so territorial that if two are placed together, one will drop dead within a few days, even without physical injuries.
jNBAp TIL that the 1939 classic "The Wizard of Oz" cost so much to make and promote that MGM did not profit from it until a 1949 re-release
jNV9R TIL cockroaches wont eat cucumbers. This is due to a chemical in cucumbers (trans-2-nonenal) which acts as a natural replent for ants and roaches.