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TIL In 1990 Noam Chomsky wrote “If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.”

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J7xQ TIL that tuition to the University of California system in the 1960’s was completely free.
DONe TIL that Abraham Lincoln was once called “two-faced” in a debate, and replied with “If I had two faces, do you think I’d be wearing this one?”
KYYmE TIL that the Farallon Islands, off the coast of San Francisco, California, has the highest rodent density of any island in the world, with over a thousand mice per acre. Visitors to the islands can, at times, see the ground moving when the mice are burrowing their underground tunnels.
EgYDP TIL how the United States declared the end of WWII, on September 2, 1945. General Douglas MacArthur accepted Japan's formal surrender aboard the USS Missouri, which was anchored in Tokyo Bay with a fleet of almost 250 Allied vessels.
M07a TIL: “Hearing” people modify the sound of their sneezes. While deaf people sneeze naturally, hearing people feel compelled to add sound effects, in the form of an “ah-choo” sound.