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TIL there is only one gun store in all of Mexico.
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TIL that Walt Disney accidentally "kidnapped" Richard Nixon by dispatching his monorail train before the Secret Service could get on. The agents ran after the train and attempted to jump onboard but the doors had already closed. Monorail pilot Bob Gurr was terrified; Nixon got a kick out of it.
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TIL: There’s a lizard whose mating behavior follows a Rock-Paper-Scissors evolutionary strategy. Males have 1 of 3 throat colors where orange beats blue, blue beats yellow, and yellow beats orange. For 4-5 years, one strategy dominates, after which the strategy that exploits its weakness takes over.
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TIL that India successfully tested its first nuclear bomb on May 18, 1974 under a code name "Operation Smiling Buddha."
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TIL Bob Marley’s “No Woman No Cry” is actually titled “No Woman Nuh Cry”. Which translates to “No Woman Don’t Cry”. It’s a comfort song for a woman, not a comfort song for men with no woman!
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TIL that U.S. Congressman John Reilly bought the South Fork Dam, sold the dam's critical sluice pipes for scrap, then resold the dam to a club for wealthy families. Further alterations resulted in a failure that killed 2,209 people and destroyed 1,600 homes. No damages were paid.