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TIL that a 20 year-old book titled “Foundations of Geopolitics” outlined Russian goals to annex Ukraine, separate the UK from the rest of Europe, and foment racial and isolationist groups in the U.S.

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yQXBp TIL that Until 2013, 10% of US electricity came from disassembled Russian nuclear warheads
Z8JnY TIL the government used to take raisins from farmers to keep prices artificially high, until the supreme court struck down the practice in 2015 as unconstitutional.
AERg TIL that Michelangelo’s “The Creation of Adam” is possibly the biggest fuck you to Catholic church. Background figures and shapes portrayed behind the figure of God resemble the anatomical structure of human brain. Which signifies that human brain is behind the myth of creation.
vPLKL TIL that Matthew McConaughey has a brother named Rooster, who named his son Miller Lite and his daughter Margarita
gaL8 TIL that our ability to comprehend certain colors depends on if our language has a word for that color, and some cultures do not distinguish between blue and green.