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ADMO4 TIL of Django Reinhardt, a Jazz Gutiarist of the 1930's. He has been called one of the greatest musicians of the twentieth century, and he's among the first to play Jazz that featured guitar as the lead instrument. Doing it all while only having 3 fingers on his left hand due to a fire in 1928.
A8mo TIL While visiting Camp David in 1973, Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev was given a Lincoln Continental by Richard Nixon. Brezhnev coaxed Nixon into the passenger seat and then drove off the property, leaving the President’s security detail behind as the two leaders sped down rural, narrow roads.
LQPld TIL about Langton’s Ant, a simple computer simulation where an "ant" moves on a grid with only two rules, producing thousands of chaotic steps before eventually creating an endless, repeating highway pattern.
6EbpX TIL of the Tlatelolco massacre, in which hundreds of demonstrators protesting the 1968 Mexico City Olympics were gunned down.
VByjp TIL of the rhyme-as-reason effect. When a short phrase or declaration uses rhyme, the listener is more likely to believe it's true