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TIL that Bob Dole’s 1996 campaign web site is still online.

Read more dolekemp96.org

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loVxN TIL about Bill Bradley, an NBA all-star who won two championships with the New York Knicks (1979, 1973), only to become a New Jersey Senator from 1979-1997
QjZd TIL that eating 1400 Slim Jims will kill a person via sodium nitrate poisoning
E1DXX TIL in 1989 a retired nurse was asked to give her real life testimony about her home accident for a commercial. When they asked her to repeat exactly what she said during the accident, she shouted “I’ve fallen… and I can’t get up.”
dLV8 TIL - In athletics if you move as the gun sounds, you have considered to have false started - as the human brain cannot hear and process the noise of the starting gun in under 0.10 seconds
e0yr5 TIL: About the "Wow! Signal" which appeared to come from the direction of the constellation Sagittarius and bore the expected hallmarks of extraterrestrial origin.