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TIL Richard Nixon's foreign policy known as "Madman Theory" revolved around the idea of acting as irrational and volatile as possible as to make irrational and suicidal threats seem feasible.

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e0oR6 TIL Kit Kats in Japan are associated with the phrase Kitto Katsu (きっと勝つ), translated as "You will surely win", and thus a good luck charm for students
LYY9 TIL: multiple shows including, the walking dead, Malcolm in the middle and breaking bad have used a fictional cigarette brand called morley.
x6pgB TIL The White Helmets in Syria is an organization dedicated to providing free aid to civilians during the war.
x6VN0 TIL the first ever transatlantic radio signal was received here in Canada, morse code for the letter “s”
a8de0 TIL the Dewey Decimal system reserves 999 for history of "extraterrestrial worlds"