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TIL U.S. President Lyndon Johnson stood over people so close, they would bend backward. This is known as the Johnson treatment.

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am09 TIL: In the 1980’s, Mcdonald’s ran a contest where a person could win a million dollars for succesfully reciting a song with their entire menu as the lyrics.
577B TIL In 2006, China slaughtered 50,000 dogs after three people died of rabies. Dogs being walked were seized from their owners and beaten to death on the spot. Owners were offered 63 cents per animal to kill their own dogs before the beating teams were sent in.
LDoV TIL Pedro Alonso López was convicted of Raping and Murdering 110 girls between the ages of 8 - 12 and confessed to killing over 300. He was convicted in 1983 and released in 1998. His whereabouts are unknown.
E9no TIL R. Norris Williams survived the Titanic sinking but spent so much time submerged in the icy Atlantic that doctors wanted to amputate his legs on rescue ship Carpathia. He refused the amputation ,recovered and went on to win the U.S. Tennis Championship that very same year
6pKl TIL president Ronald Reagan’s kids are outspoken liberals, and his son (Ronald Reagan Jr) is even an atheist.