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TIL Golden Retrievers originated from Scotland

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R7am8 TIL Stanley Kubrick was supposed to give Malcolm McDowell 2.5% of the profit from A Clockwork Orange, but never told McDowell about the arrangement and never gave him the money.
8eWGK TIL about the Matsushiro Underground Imperial Headquarters, a bunker complex planned in the event of an Allied invasion of Japan. It included facilities for the Imperial General Headquarters, military communications, NHK and telephone, Imperial family residences, a shrine and a brothel
GAoGj TIL about exotic atoms. These are semu-stable elements, not on the periodic table, made from other fundamental particles. They can sometimes even bond with regular atoms.
j6XAQ TIL Silphium is an unidentified/extinct plant - the exact identity is unclear, highly debated - that was used as a contraceptive and an abortifacient by ancient Greeks and Romans. The plant was also used as seasoning, medicine, perfume, aphrodisiac.
Z8OZY TIL the 31st Vice President of the United States Charles Curtis was 3/8 Native American raised on reservations and his dad fought in the Civil War Kansas Volunteers.