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TIL James Wilson—a signer of both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, and one of the six original members of the U.S. Supreme Court—was the first and only Supreme Court justice to be jailed while on the Court.

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GD7E TIL that in 1925 con man Victor Lustig sold the Eiffel Tower to a scrap metal dealer
b6OVQ TIL: The one-shot manga "Shiroi Heya no Futari" (1971) by Ryoko Yamagishi is considered to be the first yuri (girls' love) manga.
KOAJ TIL that there is a cemetery in Romania famous for their vibrant and colorful tombstones that artfully depict scenes from the buried person’s life, most often involving how they died. Each tombstone also has a poetic epitaph inscription.
gW7A TIL That Mary Jane was killed by Spiderman’s radioactive semen.
EgrKV TIL the Mayans have Ixtab, the goddess of suicide by hanging. In some cases hanging was seen as a honorable way to die.