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TIL US Senator William Proxmire of Wisconsin wanted the US to ratify the UN Genocide Convention. He gave a speech on the need to ratify it each day the Senate was in session from 1967-1986 (a total of 3,211 times) until the US Senate finally ratified it on Feb. 11th, 1986 in an 83-11 vote.

e0gAg TIL the groomsmen at Ahmad Rashad's wedding were Bill Cosby and O.J. Simpson
x6vn7 TIL that the famous psychologist Sigmund Freud suggested that addictions, including tobacco, were substitutes for masturbation.
Wkl9d TIL Jimmy Carter reported seeing an unidentified flying object while at Leary, Georgia, in 1969
GADbN TIL that people born blind cannot become schizophrenic
Yp4MP TIL Horses can roll over on their backs without suffocating like a turtle