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TIL that US President Nixon believed that France, Italy and Latin America are too immature for democracy and should instead be ruled by authoritarian regimes

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a84gM TIL Oppenheimer attempted to poison his tutor with cyanide
Q6Za TIL that ancient Roman kids wore amulets devoted to the divine phallus. These effigies depicted winged penises or fist/penis hybrids - home charms showed ejaculating penises into eyes or multi-phallic sculptures. These charms helped protecting from evil eye (eg.babies’ necks), give strength or luck.
44J5 TIL the fastest matter ever detected was the Oh-My-God particle, detected over Utah in 1991. It was going so fast that it had as much energy as a baseball travelling 60 MPH and is 50 times more energy than produced in the LHC
LQEZ0 TIL a song charted for 3 weeks in Billboard in 1979, despite never being sold or played on radio. It was lost for 37 years and thought to be a hoax until a recording was discovered in 2016.
neKE7 TIL that despite their name and musical style, Skid Row (the band) were not from Los Angeles, but rather Toms River, New Jersey.