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TIL: Gerald Ford was subject to two assassination attempts, both by women. Only two presidential assassination attempts by women in US history

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8aggG TIL that in 2017 during the Me Too movement, the late Anthony Bourdain expressed remorse that his 2000 book Kitchen Confidential "celebrated or prolonged a culture that allowed the kind of grotesque behaviors we're hearing about all too frequently"
5Y15p TIL 30 Billion honey bees from around the US are shipped to California once a year to pollinate almond trees. They are then shipped to other parts of the country through the year for the same purpose.
xVNjo TIL that soldiers during the Vietnan War reported seeing bigfoot like creatures, which they named "Rock Apes".
X0mw8 TIL 265 crates of black tea and 75 crates of green were dumped at the Boston Tea Party
N7dk1 TIL The USS Johnston was saluted by a Japanese destroyer captain as it was sinking, after spending nearly 3 hours squaring off against 23 Japanese ships, including 4 Battleships, 8 Cruisers and 11 destroyers.