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TIL: a man suffering from muteness spoke his first words in over 6 years after riding Coney Island’s Cyclone coaster. His words were, “I feel sick.”

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Me8NB TIL The initial 1972 meeting between President Richard Nixon and Mao Zedong was planned for fifteen minutes, but it lasted about an hour. Mao seemed to only want to talk philosophic questions, although Nixon brought up questions like the India-Pakistan crisis, Taiwan, Vietnam, Korea
WQ09 TIL that Ronald Reagan gave info on fellow actors to the FBI, and later received political favors from J Edgar Hoover
YJGd TIL “You Get What You Give” by the New Radicals has been praised by Joni Mitchell, who said it “rose from the swamp of ‘McMusic’ like a flower of hope.” The Edge from U2 singled it out as the song he most wished he had written, and Ice-T cited it as one song that had grabbed him, outside of rap.
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