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TIL that former Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger once issued a veto letter with a hidden message (F*CK YOU). When asked by a newspaper if the message was intentional, Schwarzenegger’s spokesman said only, “what a strange coincidence.” The paper noted that he was “clearly being sarcastic.”

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XEx8r TIL that the 1936 film 'Circus' - Stalin's favourite and the most successful of all time within the Soviet Union - was about an American woman with a Mixed Race son, who finds acceptance in the USSR. The movie's climax had the boy being held and sung to lovingly by various Soviet ethnic groups.
LkYYp TIL that these tall mesh nets of 30 square meters are harvesting clouds - coulds that once were a cause of illness for the residents of Mt. Boutmezguida in Morocco's anti atlas mountains, today, are the solution for desertification of the area thanks to these mesh nets.
7XNL TIL in 2008, a New Mexico man tried to stage his suicide to look like a murder by tying the gun to helium-filled balloons. The lead agent solved the “murder” when others pointed out the same thing happened in an episode of CSI.
oBXW TIL that Target department stores in Australia are knockoffs of Target stores in the US. They are in no way affiliated.
OQDL TIL a 1913 storm called the White Hurricane “battered four of the five lakes, killed 250 people, sunk 12 ships and caused $120 million in damage. “It was the most ferocious storm ever recorded on the Great Lakes at that time or since.”