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TIL President Nixon, after many years of refusing to release his tax returns, finally relented, saying “People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I am not a crook.” After the investigation, he was forced to pay $465,000 in back taxes he owed.

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YpVZx TIL an unknown species of spider makes creepy ass Cabal ritual circles out of silk
GDA1 TIL that radiotrophic fungi exist which can transform gamma radiation into chemical energy. They were found inside the Chernobyl nuclear plant.
XdlQ TIL of the Dunning–Kruger effect, a phenomenon in which an incompetent person is too incompetent to understand his own incompetence
Ooo7e TIL after analyzing losses over North Vietnam in 1968, the US Air Force invested in upgrades for its F-4 jets while the Navy created an advanced combat school for its pilots: TOPGUN. The Navy saw kill ratios climb to 13:1 while the Air Force saw no improvements.
JP6B TIL that although they are unable to produce chlorophyll Albino Redwood trees can survive, this is because the albino trees are able fuse their roots with the roots of other Redwood and live as parasites, there are only 61 known examples of this.