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TIL about how the CIA faked a vampire attack in a psy-op campaign against Philippino communist rebels.

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Z8xvG TIL that Helen Keller was a radical socialist, birth control supporter, and helped found the ACLU in 1920.(Corrected title)
wo6RM TIL The Mediterranean Race (or 'Mediterranid Race') is an obsolete racial classification of humans based on the now-disproven theory of biological race. From the late 19th to mid-20th Centuries, it was widely believed that Mediterranean people were a specific sub-race of the Caucasian race...
LknJm Today I learned, two men made famous in the 90’s who claimed to have created hundreds of crop circles since 1978 using rope and a simple wooden board admitted it was a Hoax.
4koEg TIL that in 1986, a French woman invested several months of her time to gain the necessary qualifications to operate a helicopter. She then proceeded to rent one, fly it over a prison, and successfully extract her husband, a convicted bank robber, from the prison's roof.
MeO0K TIL that for Apollo 11, there was a speech prepared just in case Neil and Buzz had to commit suicide on the moon.