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TIL J. Edgar Hoover recommended that Einstein be kept out of America by the Alien Exclusion Act, but he was overruled by the U.S. State Department. FBI spied on Einstein for 22 years and kept a dossier with 1400+ Pages on him.

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VBnwB TIL that proposals for a link between the islands of Great Britain and Ireland were proposed satirically as early as 1799, and seriously from 1886 onwards, but no viable plan for either a bridge or tunnel has ever been put forwards
ndaY TIL Bill Watterson was thinking of allowing his famous Calvin and Hobbes comic strip to be animated, as he admired animation as an art, but decided against it once he realized he didn’t want to hear Calvin’s voice.
aN0A TIL that the term “scot-free” was actually absorbed into English from the Norse word “skattefri”, which means “without tax”.
kO4mg TIL the Vatican declared wearing bikinis a sin in the 1950s.
9PpX TIL Earth is the densest planet in the solar system.