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TIL in 1972, at the height of the Troubles, the Irish Republican Army allowed an American TV crew to film its members as they engaged in weapons training, patrols, gun battles and bombing missions across Northern Ireland.

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Zp97p TIL that Homo sapiens were not the first farmers in Earth's history. Ants have been farming fungus for over 60 million years.
5YRLB TIL that there’s no plastic used in plastic surgery. The term comes from the Greek word “plastikus” which means “to form” or “to mold”.
OoJRL TIL 1976 Farrah Fawcett red swimsuit poster has sold over 12 million copies. Two years after her death, the swimsuit was donated to Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, along with an original copy of the poster, her personal Charlie’s Angels script book, and other personal items.
69YMZ TIL Davyon Johnson, an 11 year old boy from Muskogee, Oklahoma, saved a fellow student from choking and pulled a disabled woman from a burning house all in the same day. He got the key to the city as a reward.
6E7NQ TIL due to high ruble inflation during the fall of the USSR, parody dollar bills dropped by AC/DC during their concert in Moscow were used in monetary transactions and considered more valuable than rubles.