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TIL Pubic lice are disappearing because of bikini waxes

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e0By5 TIL that during the Cold War, Chairman Mao held meetings in his swimming pool to embarrass Nikola Khrushchev, who had to wear a floaty as he couldn’t swim. Khrushchev felt insulted and the incident furthered the deterioration of relations between the Soviet Union and China
yQBWv TIL that whenever Beethoven sat down to write music, he poured iced water over his head
neebP TIL the Orient Express Became the World’s Most Glamorous Train
m1WQM TIL that in WWII, American bombers dropped empty beer bottles as noise makers to confuse Japanese sound-locator flak gun directors, and in other cases to frighten and confuse Japanese troops to keep them awake all night before an Allied attack.
vPkK TIL the “world’s worst nuclear disaster” was the result of two individuals stealing a radiotherapy source - and using it’s core as jewelry.