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TIL The Anti-Defamation League in the US was busted for spying on US citizens (and others) in support of the South-African apartheid regime and Israel.

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xVmkD TIL the Canadian Down Syndrome Society advocacy group petitioned to have people with Down syndrome added to endangered species list.
wonG6 TIL that pro-wrestler Biff Wellington was found dead the same day his former tag team partner Chris Benoit infamously took his own life after murdering his wife and son earlier that weekend
x67L0 TIL when Charles Darwin was sent some flowers from a friend he noticed one flower was extremely long and bet some moth with really long mouth parts exists to pollinate it. A few years later that moth was discovered.
XEpkr TIL "Cavers who witnessed earthquakes while underground have described sounds as if a distant aircraft was passing by, as in becoming perceptibly louder, then fading away."
wWRJ TIL that when Kiefer Sutherland found out about a “24” drinking game where you drink every time he says “damn it,” he decided to play along and started saying the phrase as many times as he could in an episode.