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V7xZ TIL “Public relations” was invented by Freud´s nephew Edward Bernays as a substitute for “Propaganda” due to negative implications surrounding the word because of its use by the Germans
KvyB TIL in 1959 Soviet Premiere Nikita Khruschchev was denied a request to visit Disneyland during a trip to the United States. He became enraged and stated “But just now I was told that I could not go to Disneyland. I asked ‘Why not? What is it? Do you have rocket-launching pads there?’ I do not know.”
XBWE TIL there is a galaxy called LEDA 074886 that has a rectangular shape.
eKag TIL in 1954 the US Government launched Operation Wetback, a mass deportation of illegal mexican immigrants.
orQ7 TIL Rhea Perlman moved in with Danny DeVito two weeks after meeting him in 1971, and they have been together ever since.