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TIL: Nixon got 18 million more votes than McGovern in 1972 elections but the Democrats got 4 million more votes for house

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E1MoX TIL of the Pioneer Plaque, a pair of plaques sent on the Pioneer spacecrafts that included a naked man, a naked woman, and a diagram representing the origin of the spacecraft. The plaque was designed to transmit information to potential aliens who might intercept Pioneer 10 and 11.
9YdM TIL British Columbia has the most ghost towns of any jurisdiction in North America, estimated at more than 1500
j6ebp TIL that the us military trained pilots over the Great Lakes.
b410 TIL the military refers to every time zone using a letter of the NATO phonetic alphabet. Therefore, in Honolulu, it is always “Whiskey time”.
0dOrj TIL that the Japanese word for wisdom teeth literally means "unknown to parents" because wisdom teeth generally erupt long after a person has gained independence and left their childhood home.