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TIL that during the Watergate investigation, the Nixon team offered to let a Democratic Senator listen to the 'Nixon tapes'. A Senator who was hard of hearing and on pain medication.

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ZpXNQ Today I learned that if a spider is big enough, it can hiss by moving the hairs on its body a certain way - it sounds somewhere between rustling leaves and a snake
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