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TIL Kevin Spacey's brother is a Rod Stewart impersonator

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VMEa0 TIL During the Cuban missile crisis, Kennedy said: “Why does he put these in there, though? … It’s just as if we suddenly began to put a major number of MRBMs in Turkey. Now that’d be goddamned dangerous, I would think.” His advisor immediately pointed out: “Well we did it, Mr. President.”
0w0Bv TIL that police in a district in India's Madhya Pradesh state have been paid extra to grow moustaches because their bosses believe it makes them command more respect.
WkEZN TIL in 2017, three infertile mice were able to give birth to healthy offspring after being implanted with artificial 3-D printed ovaries.
OobOL TIL about food scientist Robert Baker who invented the chicken nugget in a laboratory at Cornell University in the early 1960s. He successfully created a "chicken stick" that would retain form when freezing or frying. Instead of patenting the invention, he sent the recipe to hundreds of companies.
gEY8 TIL Nestle would aggressively market baby formula in developing countries, causing unnecessary death and suffering of infants.