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TIL in a traffic stop, Arizona officials seized illegal drugs with a street value of over $1M, then got a search warrant for the driver's property which included a former KFC restaurant. In the KFC floor, they found a hole leading to a 590 ft tunnel where drugs were funneled from the Mexican side.

XxeX TIL The US Government has spent about half a billion dollars broadcasting tv and radio into Cuba. The signal has always been blocked and 90% of Cubans have never even heard of the program. Congress continues to fund the program $27 million a year.
7roPr TIL - Researchers have discovered that the most humane way to anesthetize octopuses is by dunking them in ethanol — a procedure with no lasting side effects.
gr119 TIL in 1871 to support the need for more bells in the Cologne Cathedral, Kaiser Wilhelm I donated 24 captured French canons to be melted down and cast. The three ton bell created was named Kaiserglocke. Ironically the bell was melted down in 1918 to support the German war effort.
6Eb0Y TIL that in 2015, Martin Scorsese directed a 16-minute short film called “The Audition” that served as an advertisement for a Chinese casino. It stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro, with a cameo appearance from Brad Pitt. The budget was $70 million.
GAgmj TIL: a German SS commander, Priebke, was personally responsible for murdering 335 Italians, confessed. escaped to Argentina, eventually taken back to Italy, tried, convicted, and died happily at home at the ripe old age of 100.