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TIL Jack Bauer killed 268 people throughout the 24 series

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yPxV TIL Before federal wiretapping caught Eliot Spitzer in a prostitution scandal in early 2008, he had nearly exposed the lending practices that led to the 2008 financial crisis when he was Attorney General of New York. He was also known as the “sheriff of Wall Street” at the time.
rR6Ay TIL that in 1990, the U.S Secret Service once raided the makers of a tabletop RPG game system, believing that one of their manuals (GURPS Cyberpunk) would help people commit computer crimes. The lawsuit resulting from it helped form the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
DAdj TIL the inventor of radar was pulled over for speeding by a radar-gun toting policeman. His remark was, “Had I known what you were going to do with it I would never have invented it!”
yb6w TIL life insurance has a suicide clause that lasts up to 2 years. After 2 years, if you kill yourself, your beneficiary will receive the full amount you signed up for
7yEr TIL when President Ronald Reagan was shot in 1981 and was taken into surgery, Reagan removed his oxygen mask to joke, “I hope you are all Republicans.”