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TIL the CIA has a museum but you can’t visit it.

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eQvn TIL after doing a 15-year study, a sports medicine Professor suggested women should stop wearing bras.
RaA1 TIL Disney was sued by hyena researches for defamation of character because of their negative portrayal of hyenas in The Lion King.
wpm7 TIL that it takes as low as 3 months to educate a Police Officer in the U.S., compared to 3 years in Norway and Finland
W7veo TIL the 1983 film "Taking Tiger Mountain" was based on William S. Burroughs' 1979 novel "Blade Runner: a Movie," which was originally a film treatment for Alan E. Nourse's 1973 novel "The Bladerunner" (the title of which was used for the otherwise unrelated 1982 film "Blade Runner").
bA8p TIL the act of self-mastery of a subject without teachers is called autodidacticism