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TIL that Richard Nixon visited high Vietnam War protestors one morning at 4 AM

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wLxXP TIL Werner Herzog directed a documentary with 88 year old Mikhail Gorbachev in 2019. Herzog began the program by apologising for being a German because he assumed they wanted to kill him growing up, but Gorbachev said kindly Germans were his grandfather’s neighbours
8e95a TIL the platypus was initially believed to be a hoax by European scientists who discovered it. The platypus is a unique mammal that lays eggs, has a duck-like bill, a beaver-like tail, otter-like feet. However, indigenous Aboriginal people were already aware of the creature's existence.
9Zjr TIL A Teenage Cancer Patient Changed The Ending Of ‘Breaking Bad’.
AeXa TIL: The United States government spends nearly twice as much money on inmates than they do on students
oBRjW TIL during the Hungarian revolution (against the Soviets), the Hungarians cut out the communist seal from their flag. This Hungarian flag with a hole in the center became a symbol of the revolution.