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TIL that when Boris Yeltsin visited the US in 1989, seeing an ordinary Houston supermarket caused him to rethink his “Bolshevik consciousness” and leave the Communist party.

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rRAee TIL the old format of 'Wheel of Fortune' in the 1980s took so long to film that hosts Pat Sajak and Vanna White would sneak off and have “two or three or six” margaritas before returning to the set, where they would “have trouble recognizing the alphabet”.
8aAeP TIL that although the grizzly bear sits front and center on the Californian flag, it has not been roaming freely in California for over 100 years
Zp9EQ TIL that in the late 1890’s and early 1900’s, the Imperial German government made plans to invade the United States. These plans were first made public in 1970.
R5DXQ TIL I learned that the birthplace of wine was not Italy, nor France, but Georgia.
VMgnk TIL ruts leftover from the wagon trains traveling the Oregon Trial, are still visible today.