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TIL a declassified FBI memo revealed that Winston Churchill privately approached a U.S. Senator in 1947 to encourage him to convince President Truman to launch a preemptive nuclear strike on Moscow

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5VMr TIL almost all asians have a birth mark called Mongolian spot (blue butt)
70Ar TIL a stray dog followed a Swedish racing team through the Amazonian jungles and rivers to complete a 430-mile (688 km) race, just because one of the team members had given it a meat ball during one of the earlier halts.
epZKb TIL that roughly 67% of the earth is under cloud cover at any given point of time.
VrWZ TIL a Catholic priest was strangled and stomped to death while serving a prison sentence for sexually molesting over 130 children in the Boston area.
WyN TIL that for a brief time in 2011, Apple had more money than the U.S. government….