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TIL How Tammany Hall got its name. Tamanend (c. 1625–c. 1701) was the Chief of Chiefs of the Lenni-Lenape nation in the Delaware Valley & he signed the Peace Treaty with William Penn. He became known as Tammany.

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xVGEg TIL that to avoid releasing the Watergate tapes to prosecutors, Nixon proposed that Democratic Senator John C. Stennis alone be able to listen to them. Stennis was both notoriously hard-of-hearing and heavily drugged after being shot earlier in the year. The offer was quickly rejected.
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