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TIL shoulders are a muscle (yes donโt judge me ๐)
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TIL Mao Zedong, in a power-play against Nikita Khrushchev’s visit in 1958, forced him to conduct a meeting in a pool. 200+ pound Khrushchev, who could not swim, was forced to wear floaters in the kiddie side of the pool while Mao swam laps and conducted the meeting.
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TIL that 17th century Catholic scholars thought it possible that Jesus's detached foreskin ascended to Heaven and became the rings of Saturn.
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TIL in 1979 students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison planted 1008 plastic flamingos across campus. Ever since, Madison has embraced plastic flamingos; they are their soccer team's mascot and are even the city's official bird.
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TIL The Pareto principle states that often roughly 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes, & originated in the observation that 80% of Italy's land was owned by 20% of the population. The richest 20% of the world also get 82.70% of the income.
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TIL "The China Syndrome" film about a nuclear reactor meltdown was released just 12 days before the Three Mile Island nuclear meltdown catapulting the film into a blockbuster hit