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TIL Jimmy Carter's first election was nearly stolen from him by ballot-stuffing. He took it to court and won

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pb5b TIL that in 1978, current California congresswoman Jackie Speier, then a congressional aide to Leo Ryan, was shot 5 times in an ambush by supporters of Jim Jones while investigating human rights abuses at his Guyana compound, fleeing into the forest and waiting 22 hours before help arrived.
V9AD TIL: in 2015 more Americans died of prescription opiate overdoses than were murdered or died in traffic accidents.
VBKJ8 TIL that Warren Buffett is the oldest CEO of a Fortune 500 company at 93 years old.
d8wVB TIL Dorothy and Theodore are the same name reversed. They're both made from the Greek roots "doron" (gift) and "theos" (God).
EgdNW TIL I learned that in 2017, Title Insurance companies in Texas sold $1.8 billion worth of policies and paid only $24 million in claims.