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TIL on New Years Eve of 1999, Brad Pitt played a prank where he bribed the Mexican Government to cut the power and phone lines of a resort and send in troops to arrest one of his friends on drug charges.

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6wYw TIL there’s a script floating around Hollywood for a show called Time Jack, about a guy who, every time he masturbates, he travels through time. If he hates the time, he whacks off and he’s gone. If he loves it, he can stay—as long as he doesn’t masturbate.
W7YYA TIL In Mahanoy Area School District v. B.L. (2021), the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Pennsylvania high school officials lacked the authority to discipline a student for an off-campus, vulgar Snapchat post that she made in frustration after not making the varsity cheerleading squad.
GY7GG TIL, that in 1917, British forces were not ready for a head on assault of Jerusalem, so British intelligence created a plan where cigarettes would be air dropped by recon planes for the Ottomans everyday up until the day of the assault, where they instead dosed all the cigarettes with opium.
epjWk TIL The Smoot-Hawley Act raised tariffs to the second highest in U.S. History in 1930, prompting retaliatory tariffs by other countries. causing exports and imports to decline by 2/3. Economists and economic historians have agreed that the Act worsened the Great Depression.
b677p TIL that the civilian sailors of the U.S. Merchant Marine had a higher casualty rate during World War II than any branch of the armed forces.