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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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Gra1 TIL Frank Whittle, the inventor of the turbojet engine, wrote: “Good thing I was too stupid to know this” on a academic report stating gas turbine aircraft engines were “beyond the realm of possibility”.
R5ZWw TIL "Bezoar stones", undigested matter in porcupines, proboscis monkeys, and other animal's intestines, were once prized in Europe and Asia as magical cure-all stones and worn by royalty on rings.
dME7 TIL- When cranes (the bird) sleep, one bird acts as a sentry. The sentry holds stone in its claw so that if it falls asleep the stone will drop the stone and the sentry will wake.
KMj4 TIL Louis C.K. refuses to shoot his show “louie” when he has custody of his daughters, much to the chagrin of his staff. On those days, he edits the episodes while his children are at school.
Wkad4 TIL Dave Grohl wrote and recorded an entire album by himself, singing and playing each instrument in the studio. He chose the name Foo Fighters to hide his identity. After a record label picked it up he needed to recruit members to perform the songs live. Thus the Foo Fighters were created.