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TIL Harvard once spent$ 100M on vineyards

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gya9 TIL Richard Pryor was raised in a brothel where his own mother worked. He found an escape in watching movies because, “you were never in doubt as to why the women in them were screaming.”
BrGye TIL that Hydrochloric acid tastes like Vinegar, Battery Acid, and Blood mixed together.
KOY0B TIL that the New York Times put out an editorial in 1922 which claimed that "Several reliable, well-informed sources confirmed the idea that Hitler's anti-Semitism was not so genuine or violent as it sounded"
eQ5n TIL that historically speaking, liberal arts studies were defined as skills that a free person should know; such as, “participating in public debate, defending oneself in court, serving on juries, and most importantly, military service.”
x6boB TIL that the US have lost at least 3 nuclear bombs