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TIL of the Goldwater Rule, which keeps psychiatrists from commenting on public figures.

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NXBXJ TIL a plane once crashed because a passenger smuggled a crocodile on board
Lknav TIL that Teddy Roosevelt enjoyed boxing while president. His sparring partner punched him so hard he lost vision in his eye for the rest of his life. Roosevelt never told the other man what had happened.
7m4Z TIL in 1984 Michael Larson was a contestant on Press Your Luck. Using the stop-motion on his VCR, he noticed that the presumed random patterns of the game board weren’t actually random, and memorized the sequences. He won 45 consecutive spins and earned a total of $110,237 in cash and prizes
ne8rr TIL Syphilis was known as the "French disease" in Europe as is rumored to have been conceived in the 15th century after the French army was celebrating a victory in Naples, Italy
v1xK8 TIL the red line/margins on lined paper were there so when rats and mice chewed it up, the writing would still be intact because they usually wouldn’t eat the paper that far in.