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TIL SCOTUS, in 1995, ruled States setting term limits on Congress was unconstitutional

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EgV7 TIL that at the end of the South Park episode “Trapped in the Closet” All the names on the credits read either “John Smith” or “Jane Smith” due to Tom Cruises and Scientologists reputation for suing people
1bv8 TIL Vibrators were invented by doctors to relief their fatigued hands from masturbating hysteria away from women
d8k6Q TIL In 2013, while walking their dog in their back yard, a married couple came across several rusty buckets sticking out of their land. The buckets were full of gold coins minted from 1847 to 1894. The total value of all the coins was about $11 million.
4XlXo TIL that St Chad of Mercia is jocularly suggested to be the patron saint of botched election due to the confused nature of his appointment as saint and the relation to the word chad which is the small fragment of paper left when holes are made in paper
4kKgX TIL: Black Sabbath, the band credited with releasing the first Heavy Metal album, got the idea to create "scary music" after realizing people pay money to watch horror films and visit haunted houses.