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TIL Thomas Jefferson wanted the Constitution to be scrapped and re-written every 19 years

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Mex6A TIL of Active Measures, a Soviet programme of political warfare used mainly to weaken the West by sowing discord amongst allies, fracture alliances in particular NATO and to tarnish the image of the United States in the eyes of the rest of the world.
wLxB7 TIL a game company hired Yakuza to kidnap a game developers sister because he decided to work with nintendo
NKw1 TIL one of the animators from Robot Chicken and PES uses a modified Nintendo Power Glove to help him animate. Its sooo ‘bad’ that it even has a fist bump sound effect for when he has to meet with the director.
gJML TIL that Medgar Evers, an American civil rights activist, stated “you can kill a man, but you can’t kill an idea.” He was later shot and killed by a Klansman, but the civil rights movement lived on.
R7BBa TIL 75% of the world lives off of 12 crops and 5 animals. The crops are; sugar cane, corn, rice, wheat, potatoes, soybeans, cassava, tomatoes, bananas, onions, apples, and grapes. The animals are; Cattle, Chicken, Pig, Goat, and Sheep.