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TIL that the phrase "indicting a ham sandwich" originated from former Judge Sol Watchler, who was later indicted himself for extortion, racketeering, and blackmail. He pled guilty and served 15 months in federal prison.

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7ryNP TIL in the book "Gulliver's Travels", the laputans, scientists who live on a magnetically levitating island, discovered two moons of Mars. This was 150 years before we actually discovered Mars had moons.
p8wVO TIL Henry Ford helped industrialize charcoal briquette production with Ford Charcoal, which later became Kingsford
XE0Gk TIL When Russian President Boris Yeltsin was on a yacht in Siberia and ordered an aide thrown overboard, out of fury. [pg.468]
VZM4 TIL that the OED included a trap, made up word, “Esquivalience” which it defined to mean “the willful avoidance of one’s official responsibilities” as a copyright infringement trap which caught both Dictionary.com and Google Dictionary.
woeNP TIL about Edward Bernays, Sigmund Freud's nephew and the man known as the father of PR. He helped Woodrow Wilson convince Americans to enter WW1, turned Bacon and eggs into 'The True American Breakfast' and made it acceptable for women to be smoking publicly.