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TIL that in Saudia Arabia a wife is entitled to divorce her husband if he does not supply her with fresh coffee.

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D10wY TIL President LBJ thought Nixon's back-channel communications to S.Vietnam government were treasonous (Nixon secretly told the S.Vietnamese to stop the Vietnam War peace talks with President LBJ, and wait until Nixon gets elected to get a "better deal".)
6EJjX TIL a medical theory which holds that the human appendix serves as a storehouse for good bacteria, and helps to "reboot" the human digestive system after a chronic or short term diarrheal sickness
xVlEk TIL Mosquitoes prefer O-type blood, people with high body heat, pregnant women and heavy breathers. Many of these reasons are because mosquitoes can sense carbon dioxide (CO2) from up to 100 feet away. Which is a reason why they circulate around our heads where we exhale CO2.
VMVED TIL that Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore renounced his knighthood in 1919 (awarded in 1915), after the British empire fired on a gathering of unarmed men, women and children in Amritsar, India (Jallianwala Bagh massacre) which resulted in the death of over a 1000 civilians.
ZpvjR TIL that there was an elector dispute in Hawaii during the 1960 presidential election (the first since Hawaii joined the U.S. as a state). One set of electors was certified for Nixon, but a recount determined a different set of electors for Kennedy. VP Nixon asked Congress to accept Kennedy's.