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TIL One of the founding members of Greenpeace left the organization because he believe that it had been taken over by left-wing political extremists.

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WkaVY TIL that US President LBJ once personally called the CEO of Haggar to specially order pants.
JEbB TIL that a room known as ‘Room 641A’ in the AT&T telecommunications backbone houses beamsplitters capable of monitoring all the internet traffic in the US. It was largely thought to be a myth until PRISM revealed its existence in 2007.
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xVZA5 TIL scientists believe, that just like elephants and Woolly mammoths, that rhinos had a "Woolly" counterpart as well
4P96 TIL forensic scientists have said that around 80% of all British banknotes contain traces of drugs. A 1999 study found even higher levels of contamination in the London area; of 500 notes tested, only four had no traces of cocaine.