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TIL that in Belarus, a one-armed protester was arrested for violating a ban - on clapping

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NeEN TIL President Nixon’s favorite meal was cottage cheese mixed with ketchup.
KYAmG TIL in 1985, drug smugglers dropped 40 containers of cocaine from a plane above Tennessee because the plane was too heavy. 3 months later, investigators found the containers and a dead black bear that had consumed 75 pounds of the drug. It’s stomach was “literally packed to the brim with cocaine.”
6MR8 TIL that Patrick Stewart watched Galaxy Quest in a full theatre on a Saturday night, and laughed louder than anyone there
VBoOQ TIL That when Jeanette Rankin took her seat as Montana's Congresswoman in the United States House of Representatives in 1917, she became the first woman ever elected to sit in a national parliament. To date, she is also the only woman ever elected to represent Montana in Congress.
6vWw TIL| There is a Malaria vaccine in the works that may be approved for distribution by 2015.