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TIL President Nixon interfered with Vietnamese peace talks in order to get elected.

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rRlA0 TIL that some US $1 bills minted from 1992 to 1996 can be worth up to $1300 because they were printed using a different method.
8ak64 TIL Ferrari engines are musically engineered to sound perfect by utilising 3rd and 6th harmonics on the air intake, like a flute or organ
MeKx8 TIL that the fruit, orange, was named before the color, which was commonly referred to as “yellow-red.” Hence why people with orange hair are called “redheads” and not “orangeheads.”
78p7Z TIL that according to the American Forest and Paper Association, pizza boxes ARE recyclable (study in comments)
v1BP4 TIL about the Bhopal Disaster, a chemical leak from a pesticide plant in India that killed and injured more people than Chernobyl.