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TIL the custom of wearing a hat greatly diminished when cars with little headroom were created

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Jvlk TIL that in the 1950’s the CIA began Operation Mockingbird. The operation was to influence and manipulate the media towards their political and social views. They recruited thousands of American journalists and funded student organizations and magazine fronts to channel their views through.
e6En TIL that the United States has been on the metric system since 1975 through the Metric Conversion Act, declaring that the metric system is “the preferred system of weights and measures for United States trade and commerce”
p88pA You carry around enough bacteria to fill a large soup can
OorVe TIL that in 1985, the CIA killed 80 civilians and injured 200 in a botched attempt to assassinate Mohammad Fadlallah. This event is known in Lebanon as the Bir al-Abd massacre.
QnbX TIL in 1941 Henry Ford made a car from hemp and soybean plastic which ran on ethanol