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TIL In 2002, the FBI was forced to pay environmental activist Judi Bari $4 million dollars after they found her critically injured from a car bomb during an assassination attempt and then immediately arrested her by falsely claiming she had put the bomb inside her own car.

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47Ea TIL one of the countermeasures against war elephants was to douse some pigs with oil or resin, set them alight, and drive them towards the enemy’s elephants. The elephants would bolt in terror from the flaming, squealing pigs, often killing great numbers of soldiers by trampling them to death.
Z8B5Y TIL that Radiohead composed a song for the James Bond movie "Spectre" which got rejected for being too dark.
78G7x TIl some mattresses contain fiberglass
1aAZd TIL that Volvo once intercepted the Superbowl commercials break by asking viewers to tweet to them every time a rival car Ad was on. One free car per commercial. They stole the spotlight by spending a fraction of what others did.
BggBx TIL: Washington DC isn’t square because Alexandria county was returned to Virginia.