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TIL American Actress Dovie Beams recorded her sexual encounters with then Filipino President Ferdinand Marcos and got played to public radio

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oROPo TIL that in 1858, poisoned candy killed 20 people in Bradford, England, and sickened 200 more, when a sweets manufacturer accidentally adultered his sweets with arsenic instead of gypsum (the latter of which was used at the time as a bulking agent and adulterant)
gMxEy TIL: the actual colour of the sun is white
dD6EE TIL There were only 3 squirrels in Philadelphia in 1847, and urban planners put them there to make public parks better for people!
jwbM TIL Hawaii passed single-payer healthcare in 2009, but their governor refused to implement the law
QJK16 TIL In 2009 Sunagor launched what they claim to be the world's most powerful commercially available binoculars, going up to 160x magnification with a diameter of 70mm objectives