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TIL Richard Nixon’s daughter married Dwight Eisenhower’s grandson.

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lBrG TIL prisoners in China are reportedly being forced to gold mine in games like WOW to build up credits that prison guards can trade for real money
oBymE TIL the Bikini swimsuit was introduced by Louis Réard four days after the first nuclear device was detonated over the Bikini Atoll. Réard hoped that his swimsuit's revealing style would create an "explosive commercial and cultural reaction" similar to the social reaction the nuclear explosion.
neERo TIL that because penguins have no predators on land, whenever they see a different species they just think it's a strange-looking penguin.
b8Lp TIL that in 2004 the Republic of Georgia fired 30,000 police officers (almost the entire traffic police force) due to corruption and built glass police stations to encourage an image of transparency.Since then crime in Georgia has dropped and the public confidence in the police has risen drastically
xYZ1 TIL: During WW2, there was an Edinburgh derby (in soccer/football) that was so foggy, neither the commentator or the spectators knew what was going on. The commentator couldn’t mention the fog, incase Germans were listening. He described a fake game but under the fog it ended 6-5.