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TIL Churchill declared “Mr. President, I have nothing to hide from you” while standing naked in front of FDR.

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NDXN TIL that the most brilliantly colored thing found in nature is a bright blue berry, as shiny as a mirror, that contains no pigment at all
DQ1mY TIL that there was a Masonic-style group for Catholics to join in the 18th century called the Order of the Pug. Initiates had to wear a dog collar and kiss the rear end of a porcelain statue of a pug.
MBwW TIL that even with the extremes of Mt Everest & the Mariana Trench the Earth has less deviation from an idealized spheroid than a billiard ball.
vPNR TIL Harvard students celebrate ‘Incest-Fest’. Where the main goal is to have sex with as many people as possible instead of studying
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