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TIL there are some women who remove their pinky toes in order to fit into high heels

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8epjZ TIL a Thai prime minister jumped off a sinking warship and swam to safety. In the Manhattan rebellion, the Navy took the PM hostage aboard a ship. The Air Force and Army were mobilized to put down the rebels. Fierce fighting ensued and the ship with the PM onboard sunk. This was 6 years after WW2.
DWKV TIL that almost every country participates in “Cloud Seeding”, A method of increasing rainfall from a cloud. Most places use aircraft to disperse something advanced like Silver Iodide or Dry Ice, but Russia tried using Cement and accidentally dropped a 25 Kg sack of cement through somebody house.
mLXx TIL During the Vietnam War, President Lyndon Johnson threatened CBS News that if it didn’t ‘cleaned up its act,’ after showing US Marines burning villages, the White House would 'go public’ with the reporter’s alleged “communist ties.”
xMyb TIL Jeannette Rankin, the first woman to be elected to Congress, voted in favor of the original House resolution that ultimately gave women the right to vote. She later noted that she was “the only woman who ever voted to give women the right to vote.”
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