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Today I learned the United States CIA was involved in the assassination of Rafael Trujillo, dictator of the Dominican Republic

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wLpQ1 TIL: In 2015, HitchBOT, a cheerful hitchhiking robot which was dependent on strangers to reach its destination as an experiment, managed to travel across the Netherlands, Canada, and Germany. It was beheaded after two weeks in the US after it ventured into Philadelphia.
Yp7VB TIL "Javanese princess" and exotic dancer Mata Hari was a Dutch-born WW1 spy and double-agent, convicted of spying for Germany in France and executed by firing squad.
5VK08 TIL: You CAN get pregnant twice. Superfetation is an extremely rare event that involves getting pregnant while you’re already pregnant.
ADLnB TIL France is poorer than every US state except for Mississippi
v1ep7 TIL that using shm in phrases like "Rainforest Shmainforest" or "Rules Shmules" used to deride or dismiss a concept is called a "shm-reduplication" and is found in English, Yiddish, German, and Turkish speech