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TIL in 1963 Khrushchev was so moved from a JFK speech about world peace that he said “I want to make peace with that man”. 7 weeks later the the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty was signed.

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EPl0 TIL the youngest prisoner ever at Guantanamo was 13 and since it has been open, 21 children have been imprisoned there since it’s inception.
rRA4e TIL that some birds are capable of forming complex sentences as part of their own language, the first non-human creature ever known to do so
M7Xva TIL the actress/journalist Lisa Lu Yan is the only person who is a member of both the 87 member Hollywood Foreign Press Association that awards the Golden Globes and the 9,900+ member Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences that awards the Oscars.
WkNj9 TIL the disclaimer that now appears at the end of every American film, (“The preceding was a work of fiction, any similarity to a living person etc.”) first appeared because Rasputin’s assassin Felix Yusupov successfully sued MGM for libel against his wife in the movie “Rasputin and the Empress”
ERV TIL the meaning of the word mortgage is literally “death contract”