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TIL Richard Nixon repeated “The Jewish cabal is out to get me.” several times in private conversations.

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78YlO TIL Billy Ocean's "Caribbean Queen" was released as "European Queen" in EU, "African Queen" in Africa, but "Caribbean Queen" in the US
06Ay TIL that scientists at Edinburgh University successfully made diamonds from peanut butter using extremely high pressures, even greater than that found at the centre of the earth.
b9Pb7 TIL: The word "Antifragile"—it describes systems that increase in capability to thrive as a result of stressors, shocks, volatility, noise, mistakes, faults, attacks, or failures; fundamentally different from resiliency (recovering from failure) and robustness (resisting failure).
0wm75 TIL that fishers, a member of the weasel family, are one of the few predators that seek out and kill porcupines and have been documented routinely preying on lynxes, being the primary cause of lynx mortality in the wild.
Z8Wwp TIL Former US President Andrew Jackson was approached by a man who pulled a gun on him.The man pulled the trigger and shot at him but misfired, he then took another gun out of his pocket and and pulled the trigger but that gun also misfired.Jackson who was 67 at that time then beat him with his cane