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TIL that President Chester Arthur's grandson Gavin was described as "an Ivy League dropout, an Irish Republican Army activist, an experimental-film actor, a commune leader, a gold prospector, a teacher at San Quentin, and a bisexual sexologist/astrologer."

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rZYd TIL that in August 1943, Roosevelt approved a secret shipment of banned chemical weapons to Italy aboard the SS John Harvey. This ship was bombed by the Luftwaffe which lead to an unintentional release of mustard gas on the city of Bari, Italy.
4Xp0b TIL that Richard Pryor opened the Academy Awards way back in 1977 with a monologue about black performers never getting nominated.
BbjW TIL that in 2008, a stage actor slit his own throat onstage after his prop knife, for his suicide scene, was replaced with a real one.
D1aLj TIL A company was fined 1,190,000 Euros for text message scams and was caught 2 years later doing the same thing.
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