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TIL Chairman Mao, in a discussion with Dr Henry Kissinger in 1973, offered to send 10,000,000 women to the United States in exchange for improved trade relations.

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ymwa TIL that Gen. George S. Patton believed in reincarnation, and believed himself to have been a military leader killed in action in Napoleon’s army, or a Roman legionary
yQeKv TIL that Walter Cronkite fired a machine gun at a German fighter plane while accompanying an American bomber crew on a raid over Germany in WWII.
YpM7v Today I learned Willie Nelson has played the same guitar,“Trigger” for 50 years. It has been signed by friends, family, lawyers, and Johnny Cash. It was his last remaining possession twice. Willie has played it at over 10,000 shows and he gets it repaired every year at the same shop in Austin,TX
p8dYA TIL an undercover investigation found that Apple charges $1200 for a computer repair that a local repair store was able to fix in 1 minute and charged $0 for.
nVBY TIL because their shows were so large, Van Halen inserted a clause in the middle of its contract requesting a bowl of M&Ms in the dressing room with all brown pieces removed. If they were not removed, they line-checked the entire production, often finding potentially life threatening oversights.