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TIL 5 Of The 10 Deadliest Wars in World History Began In China

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VgdQ TIL Hunter S. Thompson and Richard Nixon had a conversation about football for over an hour in Nixon’s car, after which Thompson almost accidentally blew up Nixon’s plane with a cigarette
nRmP TIL Steve Jobs could have avoided a premature death from cancer by having it properly treated, he refused it for 9 months, believing an alternative-medicine diet would be better. It was one of Steve Jobs’ most notable regrets.
yQKnX TIL Liechtenstein was the last country in Europe to grant women the right to vote. In a referendum on the issue on 1 July 1984, 51.3% of voters (all men of course) supported the move. The supporters of female suffrage won by 119 votes
E1Eod TIL that Napoleon signed the Louisiana Purchase in his bathtub at the Tulleries Palace. An American hotelier in Louisiana bought the tub in 2006 and put it in a hotel in New Orleans for guests to bathe in.
gWw8 TIL that the word ‘Poecilonym’ is the synonym to the word 'synonym’.