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TIL that in 1970 President Nixon had the White House guards uniform redesigned to be more fancy. They received much criticism, such as looking “like a palace guard of toy soldiers” and did not last long. They were later sold to the Meriden-Cleghorn High School Marching Band in Iowa.

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VQDZ TIL PETA owns shares of Seaworld so it can propose shareholder resolutions
ek7D TIL In 1961 the French Police attacked a demonstration of Algerians on a Paris bridge. In the aftermath, many of the wounded were intentionally thrown into the Seine River and left to drown by authorities; 70-200 died.
BVWW TIL In Newfoundland there is a berry called a bakeapple. The word comes from French “Baie qu'appelle?” meaning “What’s this berry called?”
b6D8p TIL about that the Gorgone Macarea is a moth found in the Amazon jungle, whose whole diet consists of drinking the tears of sleeping birds
dVrZ TIL marijuana has the potential to both treat and promote psychosis, as its two main components (THC and CBD) act very differently on a normal human brain.