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TIL Ronald Reagan started eating Jelly Belly's to quit smoking and kept it up so much that during his terms as President he would have more than 300 thousand jelly beans shipped to the White House each month

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Bgawd TIL about jurist David S. Terry, who killed his former friend, Senator David Broderick in a duel, and 30 years later attacked his successor as Chief Justice of California, Stephen J. Field, who was on the Supreme Court.
kbd1 TIL that Russia embraced Christianity over Islam because alcohol.
pYE4Z TIL of Giordano Bruno, a 16th century Italian philosopher whose extension of Copernicus’ ideas proposed that the stars were suns with their own planets that might support lifeforms. He was executed for heresy by the Church in 1600.
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