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TIL that Gorbachev’s Glasnost reforms uncovered so many cover-ups about events in the Soviet Union that all school history exams in 1988 were cancelled.

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x0A5 TIL that President Nixon, a Republican, originally signed the bill that provides Planned Parenthood with federal funding into law. He saw it as a way to keep people off of welfare.
WkkgA TIL Koalas are actually marsupials and the females have pouches like Kangaroos.
BrGy TIL that Axl Rose used to earn $8 an hour for smoking cigarettes, for a science experiment at California’s UCLA.
9Ydkm TIL that a paper centrifuge has been designed by Manu Prakash in 2016 based on spinning toy, whirligig. It can reach 20,000 rotations per minute and can be used to separate plasma from blood and malarial parasites, operate with hands without electricity and costs 20 cents.
yVjwJ TIL, Joan Jett’s famous “I love rock and roll” is a cover