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

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J1v68 TIL that director Nicholas Ray claimed his marriage with his wife Gloria Grahame ended after he found her in bed with his 13 year old son Tony from a previous marriage. Gloria married Tony a decade later.
6ryY TIL in 1996, as a April Fool’s Day prank, the Taco Bell Corporation took out a full-page ad that appeared in six major newspapers saying that it had bought the Liberty Bell and was renaming it the Taco Liberty Bell. The National Historic Park in Philadelphia received hundreds of outraged calls.
JY611 TIL Al Green’s song “Take Me To The River” earned more royalties from the Big Mouth Billy Bass animatronic toy than any other recording of it.
KOJ0a TIL, On April 18, 1962. An unknown object was widely witnessed and tracked on radar as it zoomed across the United States, travelling from east to west and landing in Utah, before it exploding over Nevada. Government claimed it as a meteor while released United States Air Force classed it as unknown
J8EV TIL: From 1641 to 1652, over 500,000 Irish were killed by the English and another 300,000 were sold as slaves. Ireland’s population fell from about 1,500,000 to 600,000 in one single decade.