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TIL the Baghdad Pact was a NATO type alliance between the UK, Turkey, Iraq, Iran and Pakistan until 1979

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nKw9 TIL a term for gay used to be “Friend of Dorothy”. In the 80s , the Navy believed that there actually was some woman named Dorothy at the center of a massive ring of homosexual military personnel, so they launched an enormous and futile hunt for the elusive “Dorothy”.
a91M TIL that a man made a 100,000 toothpick sculpture of San Francisco. It took him only 35 years.
M7DNB TIL that in 1748 Carl Linnaeus proposed the idea of a clock made of flowers. It would use plants that open or close their flowers at particular times of day to indicate the time. The accuracy would be limited because flowering times are affected by weather, seasons and latitude.
QojX TIL Dustin Hoffman’s infamous “I’m walkin’ here” line in Midnight Cowboy was unscripted, he reacted in character to almost being hit by a cab.
XELek TIL It is a popular myth that a komodo dragon's bite causes death because the mouth of a komodo dragon is so filthy that the bitten animal ultimately dies of a bacterial infection. In fact, a komodo dragon's mouth is just as clean as most animals and it instead relies on venom to hunt prey.