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TIL that in 1970 Congress tried to cut off all funding for U.S. military operations in Cambodia, directly challenging President Nixon’s war powers.

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E1547 TIL that the nautical terms for either side of a ship, Port and Starboard, were changed to the current terms due to the confusion caused by the old term for the left side. The terms used to be Larboard and Starboard.
9Yo0Q TIL there's no substantive evidence for our attention span getting shorter
oBDME TIL that Worcestershire is pronounced “wuss-stir-sure”
e069E TIL that Gene Roddenberry, the creator of Star Trek, rejected religion, and considered himself a humanist. Around age 14 he concluded that religion was nonsense. According to Ronald D. Moore, Roddenberry "felt very strongly that contemporary Earth religions would be gone by the 23rd century."
8eblL TIL In Thomas Jefferson's first draft of the Declaration of Independence where he criticized George III on slavery trade, he referred to black slaves as "MEN" (capitalized).