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TIL James Wilson—a signer of both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, and one of the six original members of the U.S. Supreme Court—was the first and only Supreme Court justice to be jailed while on the Court.
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Submitted October 25, 2025 at 11:11PM by RedditIsAGranfaloon
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SCOTUSblog
Forgotten Founder: William Ewald on Justice James Wilson, the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence (Corrected)
Despite signing both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution and being one of six original justices appointed to the Supreme Court, James Wilson is not often thought of as […]
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TIL George Washington borrowed "The Law of Nations" from the New York Society Library & never returned it. In 2010, the head librarian joked that, though they weren't "pursuing the overdue fines," they'd appreciate having it back. A month later, the Mount Vernon estate returned it, 221 years overdue
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Submitted October 26, 2025 at 02:32AM by tyrion2024
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TIL the US worked to develop "Bat Bomb" - bombs that were loaded with 1k chilled bats with time-release Napalm glued to their bodies. The project was canceled because the Atomic Bomb was finished first.
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Submitted October 26, 2025 at 03:00AM by TheUncleBob
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TIL the video game, Cyberpunk 2077, has been admitted into the New York Museum of Failures after its catastrophic, bug-filled, launch
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Submitted October 26, 2025 at 04:03AM by WarEagleGo
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Cyberpunk 2077 ends up in New York's Museum Of Failure
Two years after release, Cyberpunk 2077 has been admitted into the New York Museum of Failures, a harsh sentence, but not undeserved.
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TIL On a high-fiber diet, people absorb fewer calories overall
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Submitted October 26, 2025 at 12:23AM by firedog7881
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Arizona State University
Is your gut microbiome a calorie 'super harvester'?
In the jungle of microbes living in your gut, there’s one oddball that makes methane. 
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TIL Two versions of Chinese Actress Ruan Lingyu's suicide note were released after her death. The first version appears to be a forgery by Tang Jishan, Ruan's partner at the time of her death. The second and less well-known version is believed to be Ruan's actual suicide note.
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Submitted October 26, 2025 at 05:59AM by Ill_Definition8074
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TIL in 1962, mountaineers warned that unstable rock and ice on the Huascáran mountain could pose a danger to nearby villages. This was ignored by the Peru government, who threatened them with arrest. In 1970, an earthquake caused rocks and ice to come loose, killing 30,000 people.
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Submitted October 26, 2025 at 08:08AM by Sebastianlim
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TIL in 1939, a major international chess tournament in Buenos Aires coincided with the start of World War II. Afterwards, many top European players chose to stay in Argentina rather than return to Europe.
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Submitted October 26, 2025 at 10:47AM by Jopalopa
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TIL in 2002 a cave diver committed suicide by stabbing himself during a cave diving trip near Split, Croatia. Due to the nature of his death, it was initially investigated as a homicide, but it was later revealed that he had done it, while lost in the underwater cave, to avoid the pain of drowning.
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Submitted October 26, 2025 at 02:55PM by tyrion2024
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TIL about James Price, an English alchemist who claimed to be able to turn mercury into silver or gold. When challenged to do it in front of credible witnesses, he agreed, only to instead commit suicide by drinking prussic acid in front of the witnesses.
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Submitted October 26, 2025 at 03:21PM by JackThaBongRipper
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TIL the Air Force tasked 4 pilots to fly into the mushroom cloud of Ivy Mike, the first H-bomb. One of them, Jimmy Robinson, never made it home.
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Submitted October 26, 2025 at 04:26PM by BigZaddy64
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Chemistry World
Jimmy Robinson and the atom bomb elements
USAF pilots flew into mushroom clouds to bring back samples that turned out to contain new elements - one of them didn't make it home
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TIL that Nullsoft didn't release a 4th version of Winamp, jumping straight from Winamp3 to Winamp 5, joking "nobody wants to see a Winamp 4 skin" ("4 skin" being a pun on foreskin).
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Submitted October 26, 2025 at 05:47PM by LookAtThatBacon
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TIL a duel between two doctors was averted because one refused to fight in the morning and the other refused to fight in the afternoon
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Submitted October 26, 2025 at 04:57PM by uselessprofession
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TIL Canadian hockey player Duncan MacPherson disappeared in 1989, and his frozen body was only found 14 years later inside a glacier.
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Submitted October 26, 2025 at 06:07PM by GDW312
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TIL about Smoky, the first recorded therapy dog, who was rescued from a WWII foxhole. While backpacking across the Pacific theater with the soldier who found her, Smoky experienced 12 combat missions, 150 air raids, a typhoon and was awarded 8 battle stars.
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Submitted October 26, 2025 at 10:00PM by jstohler
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TIL Reagan had 8 government shutdowns. Two lasted for 3 days, two for 2 days and four lasted for just 1 day.
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Submitted October 27, 2025 at 01:13AM by Double-decker_trams
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Trump has overseen the two longest US government shutdowns in history
The government shutdown is continuing in the US and some of the worst effects are yet to be felt.
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TIL about 'the Harrying of the North', a brutal military campaign waged by William the Conqueror to suppress rebellions in northern England. His scorched-earth tactics killed or displaced up to 75% of the population.
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Submitted October 27, 2025 at 01:10AM by SomethingMoreToSay
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TIL that Drew Carey was fired from his role as a spokesperson for A&W Canada in 1998 after an episode of The Drew Carey Show depicted him eating at a McDonald's.
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Submitted October 27, 2025 at 01:09AM by Spider-Fan77
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TIL after two Finnish divers died in a cave in Norway, it was determined that retrieving their bodies would be too difficult, so a diving ban was placed on the cave. Despite this, four of their friends led a team of 27 divers (101 diving hours) who secretly and successfully recovered their bodies.
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Submitted October 27, 2025 at 01:47AM by tyrion2024
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BBC News
The cave divers who went back for their friends
In February 2014 two divers died at a depth of more than 100m in a huge cave system in Norway. Seven weeks later, their three friends went back to get their bodies.
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TIL the only actors who have turned down Quentin Tarantino twice are Sylvester Stallone & Mickey Rourke. Stallone turned down Robert DeNiro's role in Jackie Brown & Kurt Russell's role in Death Proof. Rourke also turned down Russell's role in Death Proof, as well as Bruce Willis role in Pulp Fiction
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Submitted October 27, 2025 at 01:44AM by tyrion2024
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Far Out Magazine
The only actors who turned down Quentin Tarantino twice
Most actors would give anything for the chance to work with Quentin Tarantino, but these select few turned him down... twice!
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TIL that the “cool S,” a common symbol in graffiti and children’s doodles since the 1980s, was trademarked in 2020. The trademark holder had no hand in the symbol’s creation, but stated no intention to sue other users of it.
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Submitted October 27, 2025 at 03:13AM by MoistLewis
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