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TIL that in 1969, in response to one of the largest ever anti-war demonstrations, Richard Nixon wanted Army helicopters to hover over protesters and blow out their candlelit vigil

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Z8byG TIL George Lucas gave away all $4 Billion he got from Disney's purchasing of Star Wars
wL0OY TIL Australian medical pioneers, doctor Mark Lidwill and physicist Edgar Booth, developed the first artificial pacemaker in the 1920s. Lidwill even used the invention in 1928 to revive a stillborn baby, who went on to make a full recovery.
LQNOV TIL that snail mucus is used as a cosmetic skin treatment.
N79E1 TIL that the most any Olympic Medal has ever sold for was Jesse Owens' 1936 gold medal for $1.46m. This is considered the most important Olympic Medal ever, because Owens, an African American, ruined Hitler's plans to showcase Aryan superiority.
Vx44 TIL that in 1997, a former head of Russian National Security alleged that 100 suitcase-sized Nuclear Bombs had gone missing