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TIL When Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau found out Nixon called him an “asshole”, he replied “I’ve been called worse things by better people.”

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74vX TIL that Jim Crow-era “Literacy Tests” were frequently not even legitimate tests of reading skills but instead were a series of incredibly confusing trick questions such as “Print the word vote upside down, but in the correct order.”
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pYWnN TIL: Lizzie Lape, set an earlier precedent for entrepreneurial women in the US Court system in the 1800s. She ran brothels spanning 5 counties and was married 8 times. She was wealthy enough that she was sued for child support and several husbands tried to take over her business.
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