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TIL that Disney once tried to open a park that would allow guests to "feel what it was like to be a slave." It was a disaster.

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7EwL TIL that in 1946 the United States offered to give up its atomic bomb stockpile and transfer all fissionable material to a United Nations body, to which a Soviet representative said that USSR does not want equality. The Soviet Union wants complete freedom to pursue its own aims as it sees fit".
l7ew5 TIL "hear, hear" is an abridgement of "Hear, all ye good people, hear what this brilliant and eloquent speaker has to say!"
78VPZ TIL that in 2014, Diana Nyad became the first person to swim from Cuba to Florida without using a shark cage. She endured a 104-mile swim through jellyfish and shark-infested waters, taking approximately 53 hours. Amazingly, she was 64 years old when she made this swim.
grDJ8 TIL about Walter Duranty, a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist who was the New York Times' Moscow bureau chief from 1922-1936. There have been multiple attempts to strip the prize due to his failure to report on the Soviet Famine of 1930-33.
oRpOR TIL "La Parada de Tettas" by Vengaboys literally means "the parade of boobs". As a kid ,we used to run around shouting these words in conservative Indian community.