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TIL: The Nixon White House considered using nuclear bombs on North Vietnam

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6En9J TIL of Robert Maheu, an American businessman and lawyer, who worked for the FBI and CIA, and as the chief executive of Nevada operations for the industrialist Howard Hughes. He recruited the mob to assassinate Fidel Castro and his investigative agency was a model for television's Mission Impossible.
GYOLj TIL Spike Milligan, member of comedy team The Goons, joked after fellow member Harry Secombe sang at Peter Sellers' funeral, "I hope you die before me because I don't want you singing at my funeral." 22 years later, at Milligan's memorial, Secombe's son played a recording of his late father singing.
gMYDX TIL 4-year-olds about 200 to 300 questions every day. Warren Berger, the author of A More Beautiful Question, says kids pose a normal of 40,000 questions between the ages of 2 and 5.
WkPxd TIL of the Massacre of Catharism: the French Catholic Church burned Cathars at the stake for believing that there were 2 Gods of Good and Evil, and that this world is a prison for our souls made by the Evil God
7rKO7 TIL that in 1946, the University of Tennessee forfeited a basketball game against Duquesne because they had one black player in Chuck Cooper on the team. Tennessee's coach asked Duquesne's coach to not play Cooper "unless he had to", but Duquesne refused. Duquesne won 2-0 due to Tennessee's forfeit.