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TIL Winston Churchill’s last words were “I’m so bored with it all.”

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VmZ0 TIL Martin Luther King’s thoughts on Nixon: “Nixon has a genius for convincing one that he is sincere. When you are close to Nixon he almost disarms you with his apparent sincerity. (…) I would conclude by saying that if Richard Nixon is not sincere, he is the most dangerous man in America.”
95Dm TIL that in the year 2000, Intel predicted that we would have 10GHz processors by the year 2011.
dWk8 TIL that in Alien, the blue laser lights that were used in the alien ship’s egg chamber were borrowed from The Who, since the band was testing out the lasers next door.
y8nM TIL that there are other photos of the Tiananmen Square tank man, showing the true size of the forces he stood up to as well as others fleeing in the foreground as he approaches the tanks.
W7oKB TIL HIV can’t be transmitted by mosquitoes because the virus can’t survive in a mosquito