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TIL about Right-wing spin doctor, Frank Luntz.

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JYA1Q TIL about the Wobbly Bridge in London. In June 2000 pedestrians walking across the new Millennium Bridge unconsciously synced up their steps with the bridge's natural movement, causing it to sway more than intended. Fearing collapse, engineers closed the bridge for 2 years to address the problem.
gkV4 TIL of Dora Ratjen of Nazi Germany who competed as a woman in the olympics and broke women’s world records; but was arrested for fraud when he was turned out to be a man named Hermann, with all his rewards taken back and given to the women he beat
4RPg TIL when an Indian Buddhist monk named Bodhidharma arrived in China. he taught Indian fighting exercises to the Chinese monks in order to improve their physical condition. All kung-fu is thought to have evolved from this beginning.
X0aDR TIL that the H.R.152 - Hearing Protection Act is actually about gun silencers and removes silencers from the definition of firearms for purposes of the National Firearms Act.
gXQb TIL that in 1961 the Italian artist Piero Manzoni filled 90 tin cans with his feces, called it “Artist’s Shit” and sold them according to their equivalent weight in gold.