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TIL Reagan and Gorbachev Agreed to Pause the Cold War in Case of an Alien Invasion.

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m1oKO TIL George Washington, unlike many peers of his time, did not wear a wig but powdered and curled his naturally reddish brown hair
R5B5w TIL The vertebrate with the smallest brain to body mass ratio is the deep sea "bathypelagic bony-eared assfish"
D1Myg TIL Dave Grohl sang backup lyrics on Nirvana songs, but since his voice sounds much like Kurt's most can't tell
kODJd TIL Sea mines off the coast of North Vietnam exploded spontaneously all at once; the cause, not determined until decades later, was a solar flare
m1JZP TIL The "non-rBST" label on milk has essentially become meaningless because none of the major milk bottlers package milk from rBST-treated cows anymore