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TIL in 1966, CBS News sponsored an invasion of Haiti by Cuban and Hatian exiles, which they planned to film. The plan was aborted when the participants were arrested by the FBI.

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kwwW TIL U.S. Presidents and science Nobel Laureates were found to be overwhelmingly first-borns, as were 21 of the first 23 NASA astronauts
mxJWM TIL that when Alfred Hitchcock was five his father sent him to the police with a note, the policeman looked at the note and locked him in jail for few minutes. This experience left him with lifelong fear of policemen and he wouldn't even drive a car in case he got a parking ticket.
0d48A TIL Carrie-Anne Moss, Trinity in Matrix trilogy, also took a part on a TV Series called Matrix (1993) about an assassinated hitmen who stuck in between worlds and given a second chance to redeem himself in the real world by helping others.
ne8dd TIL that the US Constitution mandates that citizens to Representatives are on a 30,000:1 ratio. This was eliminated in 1929 with the implementation of cap at 435 total representatives. The current ratio is currently about 770,000 citizens to each Rep.
rNO14 TIL One of the oldest cases of environmental law is the English land dispute Aldred's Case from 1610. William Aldred claimed that Thomas Benton had built a pigsty too close to his house. The courts ruled that the pigsty deprived Aldred of his property and personal dignity.