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TIL Ho Chi Minh worked at a pub in West London in 1914
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TIL when band Bloodhound Gang was trying to find a model for cover art for their album, Hefty Fine, they asked models to send in a picture and a bio. Carlin Langley sent in a photograph of himself performing fellatio on another man. The band was impressed by Langley’s sense of humor and hired him.
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TIL that body fat has the exact same net calorific value (energy by volume) as gasoline, 9700 calories per liter.
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TIL The U.S. Pentagon has more members of the military serving in marching bands than the State Department has career diplomats.
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TIL that in the 9th century Chinese alchemists in search of the elixir of life created a mixture of saltpeter, sulfur, and charcoal. Ironically, short of a path to immortality, they had discovered gunpowder.
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TIL Canada wants complete disarmament of nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons