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TIL Lyndon B. Johnson gave interviews from the bathroom because he didn't want the conversation to stop [said presidential biographer Doris Kearns Goodwin]

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QNL86 TIL Matthew Perry Was Once a Top-Ranked Junior Tennis Player in Canada
awJYZ TIL the UK spent £2.5m in the 1980s to imprison a consensual gay S&M community. The dominant partners were charged with assault and the submissive partners were charged with aiding their own assault.
KXQR TIL that in 1967, the first woman to run the Boston Marathon as a numbered entry was chased by the race organizer shouting “Get the hell out of my race and give me those numbers” while her boyfriend and other male runners provided a protective shield.
j61xv TIL Napoleon III popularized the term Latin America to justify taking control of Mexico
A41w TIL of the Jetsons/Flintstones theory. The theory states that The Jetsons live in the past while The Flintstones live in the future. Because of nuclear fallout people were forced to build a city in the sky, after the Earth recovered years later people reclaimed it, resulting in the Flintstones time