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TIL Hô Chí Minh and Malcom X both worked at the same hotel in Boston.

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9w877 TIL 21 libraries that included the Helen Keller archives, photo negatives of JFK, priceless art, evidence and files of investment fraud being investigated by the SEC, CIA files in a secret office, the 3000 lives and infrastructure loss was totaled up to 30.5 Billion when the Twin Towers fell.
Z8kXQ TIL that you are taller in the morning than you are at night. While we are lying down in a resting position, the spine is said to “spread out” or decompress, so when we wake in the morning we are taller after lying in bed all night.
QpE6 TIL The Shafer Commission, after 5 years of research, concluded that cannabis did not cause widespread danger to society. It recommended using social measures other than criminalisation to discourage use. The Nixon administration did not implement the recommendations.
NnZP TIL guards at New Mexico State Penitentiary had a “snitch game”. They would label inmates as snitches, let them be abused, and wait for them to turn into informants to escape their tormentors.
VMrg8 TIL about Parkinson's Law, which states that work expands proportionally to the time allotted for it.