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TIL that Nixon sabotaged LBJ’s peace negotiations with North Vietnam.

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OLxX TIL If you microwave a grape that is cut in half (but the halves are still connected by a sliver of skin) it makes plasma.
6aMm TIL that Roger Waters believes the song “The Phantom of the Opera” is plagiarized from Pink Floyd’s “Echoes,” but that “life’s too long to bother with suing Andrew fucking Lloyd Webber.”
9wpEQ TIL India faces 50 year cycles of rat floods. The cycle is driven by the flowering cycle of bamboo that produces excesses of seeds that increase the rat population. The last mautam (Melocanna baccifera driven event) occured 2007-8 and the next thingtam (Bambusa tulda driven) is to occur in 2025-6.
1ao0P TIL Woman born without hands learns to drive with her feet against all odds
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