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TIL the Director of the FBI keeps a copy of the Wiretap for MLK on his desk as a reminder of past mistakes.

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VBYvZ TIL the Mona Lisa holds the Guinness World Record for the highest known painting insurance valuation in history at US$100 million in 1962 (equivalent to $870 million in 2021). It has been on permanent display at the Louvre in Paris since 1797
awj9 TIL there was a nuclear fission reactor on Earth about 1.7 billion years ago that lasted a few hundred thousand years near central Africa.
9YnyG TIL that Chickens' average body temperature is higher than Humans' (105°F - 107°F).
VMyN0 TIL: John Hinckley Jr. the man who tried to assassinate Ronald Regan was basically released from the mental hospital last year having been classified as in complete remission.
xBvw TIL that in 1988 Reagan prevented the Senate from putting sanctions on Iraq for its violation of the Geneva Protocol on Chemical Weapons. The US also voted against a UN Security Council statement condemning Iraq’s use of chemical weapons