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M5Y8 TIL Richard Nixon entered politics by answering a newspaper ad from a wealthy Republican group of businessmen seeking a new inexperienced candidate to finance and support.
9nQQ TIL Russian historians divide empires into “sea” and “land” types: Sea powers tend to be capricious, high tech and mercantile, and land powers tend to be serious, militaristic and large. Examples of this dichotomy include Athens vs. Sparta, Britain Vs. France, Carthage vs Rome, and the US vs. USSR
4kAv5 TIL: Marina Oswald Porter, JFK assassin Lee Harvey Oswalds wife, is still alive and living in Texas
6XRl TIL when universal health insurance was passed in Saskatchewan-Canada, doctors were so opposed to it they striked for 23 days.
M9e7 TIL cowboys have been going to the Eurasian steppe to help the people there restore their cattle-herding way of life they had before the USSR, and that cowboys’ practices ultimately come from that region