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TIL When Jimmy Carter got elected President, he got a phone call from Elvis Presley. "He was totally stoned and didn't know what he was saying. His sentences were almost incoherent".

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4XANJ TIL the term 'Toxic Masculinity' was first coined in the 1980's by the Jungian MythoPoetic Men's Movement, who believed that because most men no longer perform masculine rituals, men have mutated into destructive, hypermasculine chauvinists, or, in the opposite direction, have become too feminized.
oRJRE TIL Sacha Baron-Cohen’s cousin is a world famous Autism reseracher
PY5OV TIL After Richard Nixon’s landmark trip to China in 1972, the couple were gifted a pair of Pandas by then Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai. This gift created a new sensation among Zoos, and Toy makers, even gracing Time magazine. In return, the U.S. government sent China a pair of musk oxen.
XEKvP TIL a psychic sued her hospital for neutralising her psychic powers with a CAT scan. A jury agreed and she won $988,000.
oBaKo TIL that the abbreviation a.m stands for "ante meridiem" and p.m means "post meridiem".