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TIL Native Americans considered Richard Nixon to be the best president they ever had

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8epmV TIL, that because Mars father is Jupiter and Jupiters father is Saturn, Johann Bode proposed that the 7th planet should be named after Jupiters father. Bode was unaware of the fact that Uranus was the greek and not roman god. There are now 6 planets named after roman gods and 1 named after a greek.
ADVgd TIL In Japan there is a fire alarm that can wake deaf people by spraying wasabi in the air
6Q TIL There are several statues all over the world similar to Christ The Redeemer, including one that is underwater.
R7Mj4 TIL that a holocaust denial group promised $50,000 to anyone who could prove that gas chambers were used to deliberately kill people at Auschwitz. They were forced by a judge to pay that money plus an additional $40,000, to Auschwitz survivor Mel Mermelstein who provided proof of that very fact.
X4er TIL - Dollar store pregnancy tests are as sensitive, or more sensitive than the $15 brand name tests