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TIL Mountain Dew was originally a mixer to Bourbon.

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4kDgJ TIL "White Coaters" were early porn films that were presented as educational and would be introduced by a "doctor" in a white coat. This was because, in 1969, the US Supreme Court ruled that the Swedish film I Am Curious Yellow was not obscene because of its educational value.
165pD TIL A Canadian judge canceled a marriage annulment after discovering that the wife who testified during court proceedings had been an imposter.
J1RRv TIL that just hours after JFK’s assassination, his wife Jackie Kennedy was present at the inauguration ceremony of Lyndon Johnson with her husband’s blood still on her clothes
awymy TIL In order to keep the secret of "Who shot J.R.?", every actor on Dallas was filmed shooting J.R., including J.R. himself.
j6ElQ TIL Captain Charles McVay of the USS Indianapolis remains the only US Navy Captain to be court martialed for losing his ship in a time of war. Though his sentence was commuted, a lifetime of tragedy and guilt led him to take his own life in 1968