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TIL staunch Republican actor John Wayne sent an angry letter to Ronald Reagan in 1972 accusing him of spreading falsehoods about the Carter treaty with Panama to return the Canal. “I’ll show you point by goddamn point in the treaty where you are misinforming people.”

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XELwj TIL Of the metronome of Leningrad. During the Nazi siege of the city they installed 1,500 loudspeakers that constantly played the sound of a metronome. A slow rhythm meant safety and a fast rhythm warned of an air attack.
LQXor Today I learned that in Central Europe there are hunger stones (hungerstein), in river beds stones were marked with an inscription, visible only when the flow was low enough to warn of a drought that would cause famine.
DQrrV TIL Trevor Rabin wrote the entire song 'Owner of a Lonely Heart' during one trip to the bathroom. It was originally supposed to be his own solo project, but one by one members of the prog rock group Yes kept joining the project until eventually it was recorded and released as a Yes song.
OoJYa TIL in 2009, a woman walking her dog found a human bone on the West Mesa of Albuquerque, New Mexico. After, police discovered the remains of 11 women and a fetus buried in the area. No suspects have been arrested and it’s believed a serial killer is responsible. All the women have been identified.
6a1X TIL in Jamaica, if you are a gay man and you are caught having sex with another man, you can be imprisoned for up to ten years.