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TIL 'Detoxing' your body is a myth.

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8a0g8 TIL that German actress Marlene Dietrich was bisexual, and had a romantic involvement with poet Mercedes de Acosta.
Bg0dx TIL in 1969, a drunk Richard Nixon ordered a nuclear strike on North Korea for shooting down a spy plane. Henry Kissinger, his National Security Advisor, got on the phone to the Joint Chiefs and was able to convince them to stand down on that order until Nixon woke up sober the next morning
x0eb TIL the ‘Eye of Sauron’ is approximately 62 million light-years away from Earth
DQKBp TIL of Crayola's Law, which states: The number of Crayola crayon colors doubles every 28 years.
B8ak TIL that the designer of the “50 star” U.S. Flag was a 17yr old high school student who received a B- from his teacher for his design. He made a deal with the teacher that if the design was approved by congress, the grade would be changed.