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KK6 TIL Nikola Tesla believed he invented a death ray that caused the Tunguska explosion.
QVWE TIL Diogenes, an ancient Greek philosopher, would masturbate in public. When asked why he would respond, “If only it were as easy to banish hunger by rubbing my belly.”
MeBWK TIL former US president Gerald Ford, his wife Betty Ford, and politician Henry Kissinger all made guest appearances as themselves in a 1983 episode of night-time soap Dynasty
GA9A1 TIL that Buddhism is actually pretty sparse in India. Only 0.7% of Indians are Buddhist. By comparison, 1.2% of Americans are Buddhist.
kJ6B4 TIL the West Shore Line railroad tracks go under a large portion of the US Military Academy at West Point, NY