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TIL that Mr. T showed up for jury duty, in character, and posed for pictures with the defendant’s family.

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a8Oyb TIL George McGovern accidentally bombed an Austrian farm during WWII. He was haunted for 40 years until after a TV interview, when the farmer called the station to reassure him that he and his family got out in time and that it was worth it if it helped bring down Hitler in any way.
w4y8 TIL that Christopher Lee, while spending some time on leave from the RAF during WWII, climbed Mount Vesuvius in Naples, Italy. It erupted three days later.
eaGL TIL that the Sanskrit word for war literally means “a desire for more cows”
neOv9 TIL Max Yasgur, whose farm held the infamous 1969 Woodstock concert, was a Vietnam War-supporting Conservative Republican. Nonetheless, he saw the concert as a way to close the generation gap, as well as subsidize the cost of purchasing hay for his dairy farm.
6OQW TIL A U.S. FDA study showed 90% of more than 100 drugs, prescription and over-the-counter, “were perfectly good to use even 15 years after the expiration date.” The U.S. military saved $260 million in five years by not discarding expired drugs.