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TIL that whale’s vomit is worth $5,000+ per pound.
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TIL Leni Riefenstahl, Nazi propagandist and good friend of Hitler, was the first foreigner to be granted Sudanese citizenship due to her services to the country after she tried to make a documentary about Sudanese culture
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TIL Hot dogs are so famous in USA that there is a National Hot Dog and Sausage Council (NHDSC) which is a trade association that promotes the hot dog and sausage industry.
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TIL Louis Armstrong tricked Richard Nixon into carrying several of his bags through customs for him. One of the successfully transported bags contained 3 pounds of marijuana, making Nixon an unintentional mule.
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TIL that in 1965, Norman Morrison, a Quaker Pacifist dosed himself in kerosene and committed self-immolation in front of the Pentagon to protest the US involvement in the Vietnam War.
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TIL that over time a white dwarf will cool into a black dwarf. Given the length of time it takes for this to happen (10s-100s of billion years) and our Universes’s age (~13.8 billion years old), none are expected to exist yet