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TIL Richard Nixon derailed peace talks that may have ended Vietnam in 1968 so he could win that year’s election

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v1ev8 TIL of Brigadier General Edward Lansdale, who in post WWII Philippines used the natives’ belief in vampires and ghosts his psychological warfare campaign. His men were instructed to abduct enemy stragglers, kill them, puncture their necks twice, and then bleed the corpses out. Edited for grammar
4XZRJ TIL: Two stones set in to a quiet Edinburgh street mark the site of Scotland's last hanging (in 1815) of convicted highwaymen. Sympathy for the executed men and folklore over the decades spawned a legend that the cement around the stones never fully dries.
ped8 TIL If a permanent tooth is knocked out, rinsing it with milk improves your chances of it re-rooting.
16AVP TIL the bow of the USS New York was forged using 7.5 tons of recycled World Trade Center steel
XE0QE TIL Rio residents rely on an app called "fogo cruzado" (Cross fire) to keep track of all gun battles happening in the city any given day in order to avoid them.