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TIL that when a Jewish political opponent accused him of anti-semitism Fiorello La Guardia challenged him to a debate in Yiddish. The man couldn’t speak Yiddish so he declined - and lost the election.

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R7ND8 TIL nuclear tests carried out roughly every 3 weeks through the '50s at the proving grounds just 65 miles out of Vegas were celebrated & touted as a tourist attraction by city authorities. The mushroom clouds from detonations were visible from the city.
e00lb TIL Prince was to be in a Simpsons episode -when he sent his notes on the script, they didn’t match to what was written: Prince’s friend had written him new script instead. The episode was canned because Prince refused the original writers script; it was too similar to Michael Jackson’s episode.
4kAW6 TIL the white part of the pepper where the seeds are stuck to is called the placenta
WKw8 TIL Tarantulas own pets. They take frogs, and bring them back to their hovels to keep as pets. They take their legs, gently stroke the frog’s back, and pat the frog on its head, and lightly scratch behind the earholes. The frog will eat harmfull insects for the Tarantula
Oo9P7 TIL that in the 1970s, an unemployed haulage contractor named Arthur Hickey proposed to turn the Titanic into an iceberg using liquid nitrogen in order to raise her to the surface. It was calculated that this would have required half a million tons of liquid nitrogen.