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TIL JFK’s Harvard Application Essay Only Has 5 Sentences
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TIL Jim le Blanc was exposed to near vacuum for 15 seconds when his spacesuit sprung a leak in a test chamber. The last thing he noticed before he passed out was bubbling on his tongue. It was the moisture in his tongue that started to boil...
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TIL that in 2004 the Republic of Georgia fired 30,000 police officers (almost the entire traffic police force) due to corruption and built glass police stations to encourage an image of transparency.Since then crime in Georgia has dropped and the public confidence in the police has risen drastically
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TIL, during the height of Beatlemania, John Lennon’s estranged father was a dishwasher and got an opportunity to record a song. John was furious at his father’s attempt to cash in on his success and demanded the song pulled from the charts. It was and the elder Lennon went back to washing dishes.
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TIL Winston Churchill opposed the American use of napalm during the Korean war but still allowed Americans to publish claims of British support for American napalm attacks.
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TIL the US temporarily had universal child care during World War II to support working mothers. In 1971, Congress passed a bill that would have provided it permanently, only to have it vetoed by Richard Nixon at the urging of Pat Buchanan.