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TIL that President Obamas Secret Service codename is Renegade

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WkOdo TIL In 1386 a pig was convicted of murder for “had indulged in the evil propensity of eating infants on the street” and was was sentenced to be maimed in the head and forelegs prior to hanging.
Y70nr TIL that these married schoolteachers in Tucson stole a $160 million abstract painting and hung it behind their bedroom door for 32 years before being discovered upon their death
Yp7rZ TIL that Isaac Newton, who revolutionized mathematics and physics, spent almost as much time writing about and studying alchemy, and firmly believed in its viability as a science.
R7lP1 TIL about Greg Nemitz, a man which claimed onwnership about the asteroid 433 EROS in 1993 and then when NASA landed a probe on the same asteroid he sent a bill of 20 dollars to NASA about parking on his property.
16AKW TIL Mike Judge created Boomhauer's voice based on a disgruntled viewer's voice mail that he couldn't understand. The voice mail was left during the Beavis and Butthead days. Here is a link to that voice mail.