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TIL Elvis Presley allied himself with FBI director Edgar Hoover and encouraged him to have John Lennon thrown out of the US

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neEG7 TIL then-candidate Richard Nixon sabotaged a peace deal that would have ended the Vietnam War because he thought an end to the war would have turned the 1968 election in favor of Democrat Hubert Humphrey.
4YKa TIL that when the Soviet embassy in Ottawa, Canada caught fire. The Soviets tried to take out the fire themselves and not call the fire department. When the fire department arrived the Soviets would not let them in. Eventually, they let them in only after the Soviets removed sensitive documents.
AJyw TIL Drawn Together is the only show ever to have a “Very Mature” rating.
xa57 TIL it exist a theorem called “The hairy ball theorem” that states “You can’t comb a hairy ball flat without creating a cowlick”
D1yJY TIL that Eugene Levy missed the moon landing because he got a job as a cameraman on a soft core porno film.