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TIL President Nixon’s favorite meal was cottage cheese mixed with ketchup.

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vlAR TIL that a blind person might carry a white cane (or stick) meanwhile a deafblind person will carry a white cane with two red bands added. Green canes mean “low vision”.
Ko06 TIL in 1897, a newlywed woman was found dead in her home. Although her death was attributed to natural causes, her mother’s insistence that she had been visited by the woman’s ghost compelled authorities to reopen the case, at which time an autopsy revealed the woman had suffered a broken neck.
J1Q4j TIL Eric Idle of Monty Python responded to physicst Brian Cox's criticism of his "Galaxy song" by creating a sketch where Cox gets run over by Stephen Hawking
0wk4L TIL Hummus has gotten so popular, tobacco farmers have switched to growing chickpeas to meet demand.
JdO1 TIL, in the early 1900s engineers actually reversed the Chicago River’s flow. It still flows in the opposite direction.