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TIL Richard Nixon said in August 1970 about same-sex marriage: “I can’t go that far; that’s the year 2000! Negroes [and whites], okay. But that’s too far!”

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6DXl TIL there’s a city in South Dakota called Gettysburg. Its slogan is “Where the Battle Wasn’t.”
wLpbE TIL Famous physicist Sir Roger Penrose conjectures that consciousness is a result of quantum mechanical phenomena in neurons. He has worked with anesthesiologist Stuart Hameroff to suggest with anesthetic/biological research that microtubules may act as a suitable site in neurons for consciousness.