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TIL that in 1970s, people in Cambodia were killed for being academics or for merely wearing eyeglasses.

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rNdko TIL that Groucho Marx had several “last words” before his death. Some had thought it was “either I’m dead or my watch has stopped,” whilst others believed it to be “die, my dear? why that’s the last thing I’ll do!” His actual last words were “this is no way to live.”
WwD4 TIL that the Caesar salad was invented by a Mexican chef named Caesar.
pB0Q TIL Alec Baldwin and Ringo Starr did most of the voices for Thomas the Tank Engine
maYY TIL a chemical in “magic” mushrooms can grow and repair brain cells
WkkRN TIL: Ben Franklin wrote about Native American Indians, captured and raised from a young age by colonists, would return to their tribes after a single conversation with them. And that whites captured and raised within American Indian culture would flee the colonists the first chance they got.