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TIL that the Primaries that got Lyndon B. Johnson to the Senate were rigged

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Vowp TIL that Ayn Rand, the author of Atlas Shrugged, died while being mostly alone, stricken by poverty and sickness of post lung-cancer and relying on public welfare and assistance programs, such as Social Security and Medicare.
KYr1R TIL The liking gap—the idea that individuals you meet like you more than you realize. Researchers discovered that "people systematically underestimated how much their conversation partners liked them and enjoyed their company."
Z8gLv TIL Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders was fired after she suggested that masturbation should be taught in schools
ADLll TIL that blue pigment does not exist in nature (with the exception of the obrina olivewing butterfly). Everything else, including flowers, is due to some kind of light reflection.
eXg TIL that pugs were breed in china so that the wrinkles on there foreheads would resemble chinese letters meaning “prince”