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TIL Congress and the President have nothing to fear from a shutdown - they will always get paid. Members of the military (and many others) get screwed instead.

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9YP1B TIL In 1992 Tupac Shakur performed at an outdoor festival. A confrontation occurred and Shakur drew a legally registered Colt Mustang, and allegedly dropped it. A bullet was discharged. It hit 6-year-old Qa'id Walker-Teal, who was riding his bicycle at a school playground. Killing him.
6o0Q TIL Chemotherapy drugs to fight cancer were discovered in WW1 where the effects of mustard gas on surviors reduced the amount of rapidly dividing cells like white blood cells. First drug developed based on this research was called Mustine.
Y7grZ TIL After his Apollo moon landing, Charlie Duke experienced marriage troubles. Duke and his wife underwent a religious conversion, leading to their creationist belief that everything in the universe was created by a God
Rbd6 TIL that Jimmy Carter once left the codes required to initiate a nuclear attack in a jacket he sent to the dry cleaners
9YoKD TIL the 1892 animated film 'un bon bock' became a lost film because the french director Emile Reynaud threw all but two of his picture bands to the Seine river as he was suffering from depression at the moment.