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TIL that Reagan and Gorbachev informally agreed that the US and USSR would assist each other in the event of an alien invasion

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j6jyR TIL that when a woodpecker hammers away, their tongue retreats into its skull wrapping itself around the brain protecting it from the shocks
rNeZw TIL about Arthur Arndt, a German physician whose family became the largest known group of Jews to survive by hiding in Nazi Germany.
neLyr TIL That the National Anthem of Honduras has a whole stanza dedicated to France
x6Ke0 TIL that “e pluribus unum” (“out of many, one”), which appears on the United States Great Seal, originates from an ancient culinary recipe describing the colour of what was being prepared going from the many colors of the ingredients to just one after mixing them all
dm8K TIL that President Obamas Secret Service codename is Renegade