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TIL The Anti-Federalists argued that our Constitution would end up producing a strong centralized government ruled by an Oligarchy.

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XaJP TIL during the sentencing of his war crimes trial, Hermann Göring (one of Hitler’s top officers) asked to be shot as a soldier and not hung as a common man. The court refused and instead he committed suicide with a potassium cyanide capsule smuggled into a fountain pen.
N0NN TIL Al Capone is credited with getting expiration dates on milk
OGJ7L TIL Kings of Leon's band members are all related - 3 brothers, and 1 cousin
d8ZwQ TIL that there is a Spiderman comic (The Amazing Spiderman #36) that deals with Spiderman being too late to stop 9/11. Spiderman along with four of his arch rivals help out at the scene of the attack by lifting rubble and rescuing survivors.
4OxX TIL that in 2011, Norway went through a nationwide butter shortage, where smugglers would often get caught smuggling butter and online auctions for one packet of butter reached as high as $77.