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TIL There are only 3 Kmart stores left in the US
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TIL that to avoid releasing the Watergate tapes to prosecutors, Nixon proposed that Democratic Senator John C. Stennis alone be able to listen to them. Stennis was both notoriously hard-of-hearing and heavily drugged after being shot earlier in the year. The offer was quickly rejected.
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TIL the first Australian ship to go to Japan was a boat full of convicts who mutinied against their masters in in 1829. After escaping to China the sailing master wrote an account of their journey, but until 2017 when an amateur historian found Japanese paintings of the ship no one believed him.
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TIL of Shi Pei Pu, a Chinese spy. He masqueraded as a woman and had a 20 year long sexual relationship with a French diplomat, whom he used as a source of intelligence. He even convinced the diplomat that he had given birth to a child, whom he had purchased.
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TIL that in 2008, Harvard created their own version of the classic Food Pyramid that more accurately reflected dietary science.
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TIL it is illegal to not stand up for the national anthem in Thailand