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TIL All of the 276 audience members Oprah gifted a free Pontiac to had to pay $6-7K fee once the cameras stopped rolling

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D10wY TIL President LBJ thought Nixon's back-channel communications to S.Vietnam government were treasonous (Nixon secretly told the S.Vietnamese to stop the Vietnam War peace talks with President LBJ, and wait until Nixon gets elected to get a "better deal".)
R5Vb4 TIL the link between the nutcracker and Christmas was due to the popularity of Tchaikovsky's "The Nutcracker." Which, when introduced to the US, "helped make nutcracker dolls a Christmas decoration and a seasonal icon across Western culture"
lyr7 TIL The IMF estimates we subsidize big oil to the tune of $10 million per minute
r5po TIL that in 2011, a 75 year-old woman accidentally cut the fiber optic cable that provides internet to 90% of Armenia.
nWkoP TIL of John Andaman, the name given to the first Andamanese man captured by the British during their colonization of the islands in 1857. Though amazed by British Calcutta, he quickly grew ill with foreign diseases, and was returned to his home to advocate for British rule. He was never seen again.