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TIL the remainder of the Pentagon Papers (docs leaked in 1971 which demonstrated that the US gov’t systematically misled the public about the Vietnam War) were fully declassified in 2011 and are now freely available online

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KOYXa TIL Billy Corgan of The Smashing Pumpkins owns the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA)
nWkoB TIL when Rivers Cuomo, lead singer of Weezer, was attending Harvard, he was unrecognizable to most. He walked with a cane, had a thick beard, long hair, and thick glasses. Fans would walk by in Weezer shirts and not recognize him.
j68Ga TIL Winston Churchill’s favorite wine was Pol Roger champagne, which he has been estimated to have drank 42,000 bottles in his lifetime. When he died in 1965 Pol Roger ordered black-bordered labels to be placed on all their bottles in his honor.
4kEGX TIL: There’s a theory that the serpent mated with Eve in the Garden. And that’s how Cain was conceived
ANreg TIL indigenous Bolivians in the Andes have evolved to be arsenic resistant due the strong presence of AS3MT enzyme in their bodies that can metabolize the toxic element which is naturally found in drinking water.