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TIL that “Reddit” in latin means “To repeat”.

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jNK9v TIL under President Reagans directive, the United States (via the CIA) funneled more than $2 billion in guns and money to the mujaheddin (which became the Taliban) during the 1980s to defeat and remove the Soviets in Afghanistan. It was the largest covert action program since World War II.
5YK5n TIL there’s a real genetic disorder called Congenital Insensitivity to Pain with Anhidrosis (CIPA) that causes symptomatic carriers to be unable to feel pain. They also can’t feel temperature or produce a sweat, causing 20% with the condition to die before age 3 due to overheating.
6xkw TIl that Alboin, King of the Lombards took his wife Rosamund as a spoil of war after he killed her father in War. At one point he made her drink from her father’s skull, which he kept as a trophy and fashioned into a mug, telling her to “drink merrily with your father.” She had him assassinated.
ZpJPo TIL: That Ben Johnson tested positive for the anabolic steroid stanozolol and was stripped of his gold medal at the 1988 Seoul Olympics. Of the eight athletes who competed in the 100m final - five of them subsequently failed drugs tests.
ADKLn TIL Father of US Navy Admiral John Paul Jones fouhgt his last naval battles in the area of present-day Ukraine