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TIL Taco Bell calls its food prep workers "Food Champions"

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LQWOd TIL the term "conspiracy theory" is itself the subject of a conspiracy theory whereby the CIA intentionally popularized it after the Kennedy assassination to discredit and ridicule conspiratorial believers
ne0dr TIL of a 1972 CIA project to wiretap enemy phone lines deep within North Vietnam. The helicopter used in the operation, developed at Area 51, was the quietest ever built. In the dead of night, its pilots flew 100-200 feet above North Vietnamese farmers and anti-aircraft guns without being detected.
Vbnm TIL Boeing has created Microlattice,the world’s lightest metal which is 99.99% air.
dDQ57 TIL that Singapore has a government agency “to promote marriage and romance” and “foster opportunities for singles to interact in social settings”
jnYR TIL that the current Earl of Sandwich, John Montagu, owns a restaurant chain called the Earl of Sandwich, which specialises in sandwiches.