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TIL In the span of less than 1 year, both President Richard Nixon and Vice President Spiro Agnew resigned from office for separate reasons

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4eZN TIL Jews arrived in India 2500 years ago and unlike many parts of the world, Jews lived in India without any instances of antisemitism from the local majority populace until the Portuguese and British colonized India
VvjZ TIL American soldiers during WWII started a riot in New Zealand because they didn’t segregate their bars and they didn’t want to drink with non-white people.
8lVZ TIL for every elephant born in captivity two elephants die.
8wk8 TIL, 90% of the world’s data has been created in the last two years.
0d0oy TIL New Order's synth-pop classic 'Bizarre Love Triangle' slowly evolved over time as the band played it live, adding riffs and expanding the lyrics, until it took its final form. The song had several working titles and the official title may, or may not, have anything to do with the lyrics