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TIL 138 Reagan administration officials had been convicted, indicted or had been the subject of official investigations for official misconduct and/or criminal violations during his term, making it the highest criminal conviction record for any President’s staff or cabinet.

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1aAPO TIL Transgender communities in India speak a secret language thought to have originated more than 200 years ago.
N7EN6 TIL after the international ban on elephant ivory trade in 1990, China has been sourcing ivory from the fossils of mammoths in the melting permafrost of the Russian Arctic.
78EOM TIL the artist Patrick Nagel, who created the cover art for Duran Duran's Rio album, died of a heart attack after a 15-min. celebrity Aerobathon to raise money for the American Heart Association
loOBG TIL of Sgt Pilcher, who in 1960s London arrested Mick Jagger, Brian Jones, Keith Richards, Donovan, George Harrison, John Lennon, among others, for drugs possession. He almost got Eric Clapton, but the guitarist legged it out the back when Pilcher claimed to be the postman with a special delivery.
Z8G1R TIL When Mt. St. Helens erupted, it blew and pushed tens of thousands of trees into the surrounding lake. The trees are still there burnt and floating to this day, creating a carpet of dead trees.