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TIL that the Soviet Union tried to calm down the Vietnam War

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vPpXK TIL although Emily Dickinson was not widely recognized during her lifetime, she wrote nearly 1,800 poems. However, only 10 of these were published during her life, without attribution and sometimes without permission.
QNbde TIL about "Better than sex cake", a type of cake originating from the United States and is known by similar names such as "better than Robert Redford cake" and "next best thing to Robert Redford".
N7mjQ TIL In 1878, a spark ignited airborne flour dust within the Minneapolis Washburn A Mill creating an explosion that killed 18 workers. The ensuing fire killed four people and destroyed five other mills. The explosion made national news and led to reforms in the milling industry.
e0gn6 TIL of Marcel Lihau, a Congolese man that studied law in Belgium and helped establish two Constitutions for the new Congolese state in the 1960s. He sat on the country's first Supreme Court until 1975, when he was removed by the country's dictator, Joseph-Desiré Mobutu
rMJW TIL that there is an military grade version of Marijuana called dimethylheptylpyran, and it gets you high for 2 days.