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TIL Richard Nixon sabotaged Vietnam peace talks in order to give himself a better chance at winning the 1968 Presidential election, prolonging the war by 5 years.

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b9wR0 TIL John Corcoran graduated from highschool and college at a reading level of 2nd grade. In spite of this, he taught high school for 17 years and did real estate for 10 years without getting caught. At 48, he received tutoring from a volunteer literacy program, and became a literacy advocate.
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GY0DN TIL that Margot Robbie slept with a life size cutout of John Cena in her room for two years. The two would later co-star in The Suicide Squad movie.
yVVRa TIL that there is strong evidence the US sent residents back to the bikini atol post testing of nuclear weapons as it "affords the opportunity for a most valuable ecological radiation study on human beings ..." the relocation resulted in many premature deaths and disabilities in newborns.
awNky TIL that the first jazz performance of "Someday My Prince Will Come" was by the Ghetto Swingers at the Theresienstadt concentration camp in 1943. To avoid causing controversy, the band had to change the program name from "Music by Frank Churchill" to "Music from Disney's Snow White"