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TIL Richard Nixon described Bohemian Grove as “the most faggy goddamn thing you can ever imagine.”

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JpEQ TIL Al Capone was taking in about $105,000,000 a year in the 1920’s, or about 1.4 billion in today’s dollars
EAdx TIL Minecraft’s creator, Markus Persson, had severe OCD and needed everything to be placed in its own square on a grid in his mind, leading to the cubic design of the game we know today.
KO9XR TIL that in Norway, people use the term "texas" as slang for "crazy". It doesn't refer to a person, but a chaotic atmosphere or state of mind, so saying a party "was totally crazy!" in Norwegian would be "det var helt texas!", which literally means "it was texas!"
X0AW8 TIL Yasushi Takahashi left behind his girlfriend for six months to wander across Japan to create an epic marriage proposal. Carrying a GPS, Yassan covered 7,163.7 km mostly by walking, but with some use of a car, ferry and bicycle.
lxw1 Today I learned that craniopagus conjoined twins Krista and Tatiana can see through each other’s eyes.