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TIL that it was Richard Nixon who unilaterally ordered the discontinuation of the United States’ biological and chemical weapons programs.

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R7lY7 TIL That Kingsford was founded by Ford to dispose of the excess wood from the Model T
Wk4No TIL About The Greenwood neighborhood of Tulsa, Oklahoma, a black neighborhood with thriving businesses, great housing, and education system which was home to the wealthiest black people in the 1910's, before it was burned down.
9YML7 TIL Apollo 12 astronauts sneaked in nudes all the way to the moon and are now stored in official archive as "Playmate" No.1 and No.2
xLe5 TIL The amount of bombs the US dropped over Laos is equal to a planeload of bombs every 8 minutes, 24-hours a day, for 9 years
R7nK9 TIL the Guinness Book of World Records has vehemently refused to validate any attempt at the world record for the longest time spent awake, believing that it's dangerous to human health. The current record is 264 hours or around 11 days, which was set by a high school student as a science project