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TIL Jimmy Carter is the only living president to have won Texas as a democrat

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OGV17 TIL that Alfred Hitchcock directed 11 silent films and the first British talkie, Blackmail (1929)
16p6D TIL there is an Anus shaped hotel in Belgium which ‘lets its visitors fulfill their lifelong dreams of sleeping in a giant butthole.’
grOR4 TIL that the government of Imperial Japan persecuted Haiku poets in 1940-41, arresting 40 people of which two died from ill treatment during their incarceration.
4knlR TIL Ugandan dictator Idi Amin publicly suggested that he and Tanzanian president Nyerere participate in a boxing match to determine the outcome of the Ugandan Tanzanian war in 1979. This proposal was ignored by Nyerere and Idi Amin was forced into exile.
gMo8D TIL the "Jesus Nut", sometime referred to as the "Jesus Pin", is the only component holding the rotors to some helicopters' body. If it were to fail during operation, the rotors would completely separate from the body, causing a rapid unplanned decent.