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TIL about "The Johnson Treatment", where President Lyndon Johnson used to urinate or expose his penis during conversations to establish dominance.

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yOye TIL Van Morrison’s “Brown Eyed Girl” was originally titled “Brown Skinned Girl” and is about about an interracial relationship.
wLQb6 TIL of Manto Mavrogenous who was a rich, aristocratic woman from Mykonos, Greece. She equipped, manned, & privateered fleets and armies at her own expense to fight the Ottoman Turks in 1822. When the war was over, she was awarded the rank of Lieutenant General by Greece.
kOKnE TIL The Mayans had paper-based books (codices) that Spanish missionaries burned, causing "much affliction" among the surviving Maya. Only three codices survive today.
p8RAb TIL that children with the chromosomal abnormality William's syndrome are known to present with well developed verbal skills, extreme friendliness, and elf-like features.
b9ELZ TIL Croissants are Austrian, not French