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TIL only two former presidents of the United States have died during the month of September; both were assassinated

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xY55 TIL that Willie Nelson’s (ex) wife sewed him up in a sheet and beat him with a broomstick. His comment: “She was a very classy, ingenious, brilliant lady, and I was a problem at times.”
16OkO TIL that a dead person was elected as MP for the British constituency of Portsmouth in 1747. Four days after they were elected, news arrived that they had died 87 days earlier in the West Indies
49Qw TIL that in 1938, a Kindergarten teacher who witnessed a burglary was jailed for five days because she wore a pair of slacks into court the day she was called to testify.
DQ1Zg TIL the US AirForce almost lost several nuclear bombs near a village in Spain in 1966.
LVEZ TIL TV mystery series ‘Columbo’ was so popular in Romania that when the show was cancelled the Romanian gov’t feared riots, so they had the US State Dept. ask Peter Falk to record a video message to the Romanian people, which he did by reading it phonetically into the camera