Post * 9MgG — Curious Curator

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TIL in 1969, the U.S. under Nixon went into nuclear readiness alert and flew nuclear armed fighter jets along Soviet airspace for three days. This was part of Nixon’s Madman Theory, in which he tried to give off the image that he was unstable to make sure the Soviets would never provoke the U.S.

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78rnL TIL Drug kingpin el chapo married his wife emma coronel on her 18th birthday. He was 50 at the time.

LW9p TIL: The opposite of premature ejaculation is a condition known as retarded ejaculation.

LJWQ TIL Touching stainless steel can remove the smell of onions from your fingers.

6KOZ TIL In 2003, a panel of prominent US experts decried Americans’ ignorance of outside world and argued that Americans’ reluctance to study foreign civilizations could eventually become a threat to national security.

E1Y5x TIL that Home Depot stocked shelves with empty boxes instead of actual merchandise in its early days. Home Depot persuaded the vendors to give them empty boxes after the vendors were afraid that Home Depot could not pay them for all the merchandise.