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DQgye TIL that Nixon extended the Vietnam War for political gain
MNla TIL Nelson Mandela wasn’t removed from the US terror watch list until 2008
4r0R TIL that because of South Park’s Scientology episode, The Church of Scientology hired people to spy on Matt and Trey to find something on them to use for blackmail. The Church became frustrated when their investigation turned up nothing but the fact that they’re pretty normal people.
e0LYL TIL that in 1949, Gallup polled Americans on what scientific advances they thought would happen by the year 1999. 88% believed cancer would be cured, and 63% believed planes would be nuclear powered. Only 15% thought a man would walk on the moon.
wLpQ1 TIL: In 2015, HitchBOT, a cheerful hitchhiking robot which was dependent on strangers to reach its destination as an experiment, managed to travel across the Netherlands, Canada, and Germany. It was beheaded after two weeks in the US after it ventured into Philadelphia.