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TIL the last Attorney General to break with POTUS was Elliot Richardson, who resigned after Nixon ordered him to fire the Special Prosecutor of the Watergate scandal

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ojZW TIL of the Angel of Nanjing; a selfless man who has patrolled the Yangtze River Bridge since 2003, saving people who wish to commit suicide and counselling them back to health, he has saved over 300 lives to this day.
yQLKM TIL of N-rays, a new form of radiation described by French physicist Prosper-René Blondlot in 1903, sparking the publication of hundreds of scientific articles. Failing to detect them himself, physicist Robert Wood later found them to be illusionary after sabotaging a experiment by Blondlot himself.
WPxo TIL The first modern Olympic Marathon was won by a Greek who stopped at a bar mid-race for a glass of wine
nr4d TIL there is a tribe called the Sentinelese who live on a tiny island in the Indian Ocean. For thousands of years they have refused all contact with the outside world. Using only stones and arrows, they have successfully repelled Arabs, Persians, Indians, Europeans, and a fucking helicopter.
eplX4 TIL Frito-Lay, makers of Fritos, Doritos, Lays Chips had a corporate magician who mentored Lance Burton.