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TIL Nixon’s minions planned to murder a reporter critical of his administration

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xZPB TIL in Fahrenheit 451 the gov’t didn’t burn books because they were an oppressive dictatorship. The people voted to ban the books because they had short attention spans didn’t want to be offended
R5VvQ TIL George Michael's ''A different Corner" was the first British No.1 hit song on UK chart that an artist wrote, sang, arranged, produced, and played all the instruments on the song all by himself.
9Y0VX TIL that "Peacock" is not the name of the bird, but is in fact the term for a male "Peafowl". A female peafowl is called a "Peahen"
GY5X7 TIL Australian PM Gough Whitlam was removed by a British-American coup for abolishing royal patronage, moving Australia towards the Non-Aligned Movement, supporting “zones of peace”, opposing nuclear weapons testing, and threatening to close a CIA espionage base in Australia
BKxx TIL November 9th holds particular significance in German History; it is the anniversary of Robert Blum’s execution in 1848, the abdication of the Kaiser in 1918, the Munich Putsch of 1923, and the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.