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TIL Mao Zedong in 1973 offered Henry Kissinger to have 10 million women to be sent to US to start bilateral trade and boost population because China had 'excess in women'.

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Lk1np TIL in 1985 the Pittsburgh Pirates’ mascot acted as a middleman between cocaine dealers and the Pirates’ players. He delivered the coke to the stadium and completed the deals with players there. He also frequently was high while dressed as The Pittsburgh parrot during the game.
DY1g TIL mixed drinks made with diet soda can get you up to 18% more intoxicated than when made with regular soda
XaWQ TIL that when a phrase or word is slowly deteriorated over time due to pronunciation, and ends up being said or spelled incorrectly in a widely accepted way (such as, “all intensive purposes” vs “all intents and purposes”) it is called an “eggcorn”
LQQmv TIL Sigmund Freud lived as a tenant in his Vienna apartment for 47 years with his wife, 6 children, and sister in law from 1891 to 1938. It was transformed into the Freud Museum in 1971
kOBx1 TIL that sleep literally cleans your brain. During slumber, more cerebrospinal fluid flushes through the brain to wash away harmful proteins and toxins that build up during the day.