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TIL that President Richard Nixon considered pardoning himself at the height of the Watergate scandal.

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yQRbv TIL after the mistress of famed rocket engineer and occultist Jack Parsons began an affair with science fiction writer and eventual founder of Scientology L. Ron Hubbard, Parsons attempted to conjure a new girlfriend by masturbating onto "magical" tablets.
E1dvp TIL that the Triceratops possessed a ball-and-socket joint at the base of its skull, not found in any dinosaur or any mammal today. This joint would have allowed it to maneuver its head almost 360 degrees, allowing movement to any direction in a fraction of a second.
Y7MGA TIL that Turtle shells are part of their anatomy, and not some empty space where they retract
wLAe1 TIL that Craig T. Nelson has an uncredited role as "The monster" in soft core porn Spoof from 1974 film titled "Flesh Gordon"
M7AXa TIL about Lake Vostok, an Antarctic subglacial lake kept liquid at -3 degrees Celsius due to the sheer pressure of the 4000 meters thick ice sheet above it. Having been isolated for around 25 million years, the lake is said to hold clues about potential extraterrestial life on the icy moon Europa