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TIL that Bobby Kennedy stuck pins into an LBJ Voodoo Doll he was gifted at a party

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PoPe TIL of the Mongolian Death Worm, a creature rumored to exist in the Gobi Desert. Although it has never been seen, locals swear by its existence, claiming it eats camels and likes the color yellow.
b9GN0 TIL the 1987 film Wall Street is the only film to ever win both an Academy Award and a Golden Raspberry Award.
p8yL4 TIL the US banned the publication of a large global study done by the World Health Organization in 1995 on cocaine use. Excerpts from the report conflicted with accepted views such as "occasional cocaine use does not typically lead to severe or even minor physical or social problems"
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