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TIL Dwight D. Eisenhower’s grandson is married to Richard Nixon’s daughter

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9YAD TIL alcohol and tobacco are more harmful than many illegal drugs, including Marijuana, LSD, and Ecstasy
oRNVL TIL in 1970 the shirt for Big Tex, the 55 foot tall statue at the Texas State Fair, was stolen from the back of a pick up truck and was never recovered.
jJQ TIL Christopher Walken originally trained as a dancer, and later choreographed his own performance in a Fatboy Slim music video.
X041r TIL in 1947, actor Harold Norman, who was non-superstitious and refused to follow theatrical tradition when it came to The Scottish Play, died after being stabbed by a sword whilst playing the title character in Macbeth.
oGL TIL a man was held in prison for four and a half years, without conviction, because law enforcement was convinced that he could start a nuclear war by whistling into a payphone.