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TIL that “no one has actually ever found a real pirate’s buried treasure map.”

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x6KK7 TIL Stevie Wonder’s real name is “Stevland”
p8xpA TIL The DEA taught Bryan Cranston how to make meth for Breaking Bad
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PYoMw TIL Richard Nixon was offered a scholarship to Harvard , but wasn’t able to attend because his family lacked the money for him to travel there and to sustain his Room & Board .
4kaZw TIL that when Kissinger publicly threatened "countermeasures" in a press conference, during the Oil Crisis, if the OAPEC embargo was not lifted, the Saudis responded with threatening further oil cuts and to burn their oil fields if the US military invaded.