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TIL the only American President to propose a guaranteed minimum income was a Republican, Richard Nixon.

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09ZA TIL there are documents that state that Pope Pius XII tried to perform an exorcism on Hitler at a distance, but failed.
kJak5 TIL about the Massacre of the Latins, which occurred in Constantinople in 1182. The massacre was a result of the presence of Western merchants, particularly Italians, and various other factors. The Orthodox population killed tens of thousands of Catholics, with 4,000 survivors being sold as slaves.
eplmL TIL that the BBC's most exported show abroad is the 1990s sitcom Keeping Up Appearances
JYZE1 TIL Our brains do not necessarily process everything as that would be an overload of information, a study from 2016 found that under the influence of LSD, the brain recruited many more regions for visual processing than normal, enriching the images people saw even when their eyes were shut.
wLmB8 TIL Wesley Snipes once dated Halle Berry and assaulted her so badly she now has a disability - she is 80% deaf in her right ear.