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TIL in 1933 there was an alleged conspiracy by wealthy businessmen to stage a coup against FDR and install a Marine Corps general as dictator

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N7yrJ TIL that although you can't buy alcohol in the United States until you're 21, you can legally run for governor of California, Massachusetts , Ohio, Rhode Island, Washington and Wisconsin when you're 18.
9M16 TIL that “liquid breathing” is possible with a liquid called Perfluorocarbon
E1DrX TIL one of the oldest statues in Bern, Switzerland is of a guy eating babies, and nobody really knows why it’s there.
xVeKw TIL of "Spaceship Earth." The 175 ton, $1 million statue whose artist said it would stand for 1,000 years. It collapsed 3 months later.
MekX7 TIL The world's largest family stays in India. The husband has 39 wives and 94 children, 14-daughters-in-law and 33 grandchildren. They live in a 100-room, four storey house set amidst the hills of Baktwang village in the Indian state of Mizoram.