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TIL There is a professional Indian cricket player named Napoleon Einstein.

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VMEa0 TIL During the Cuban missile crisis, Kennedy said: “Why does he put these in there, though? … It’s just as if we suddenly began to put a major number of MRBMs in Turkey. Now that’d be goddamned dangerous, I would think.” His advisor immediately pointed out: “Well we did it, Mr. President.”
7o1r TIL President Lyndon B. Johnson used to give out orders while he defecated and bragged about his sexual encounters by saying, “Jumbo got a workout last night.”
VMgAk Nasa astronaut twins Scott and Mark Kelly no longer genetically identical after space trip.
WkoOX TIL that, in 2005, Nepal Airlines sacrificed two goats in front of their two malfunctioning Boeing airplanes to appease Akash Bhairab, the Hindu sky god. According to a spokesperson, the snag was fixed and the aircraft could resume their flights.
yQrLJ TIL that Kellog's mascots: Snap, Crackle, and Pop, are named after the 4th, 5th, and 6th derivative of displacement.