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TIL that people wanted to censor Washington Crossing the Delaware because they thought his watch was his penis

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rrD0 TIL in Mississippi, you can drink WHILE driving as long as your .BAC remains below .08%
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lA41 TIL actor Martin Sheen has been arrested a total of 66 times for protesting and acts of civil disobedience - most recently in 2007 for trespassing at a Nevada nuclear test facility.
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X0LPQ TIL that Buzz Aldrin (Apollo 11) was nicknamed "Dr. Rendezvous" by other NASA astronauts. Aldrin—with an MIT PhD—knew that it was not a compliment.