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TIL Dictator Manuel Noriega was allowed by the CIA to traffic cocaine into the US from the 1960s-1980s, until he stopped cooperating with US foreign policy directives. A subsequent US invasion of Panama resulted and he was sentenced to prison.

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j68dX TIL for the first 2 years after Marla Gibbs got cast on The Jeffersons, she kept her job as a reservations agent at United Airlines. She would work at the CBS television studio during the day and then go to United Airlines, where she worked the night shift.
R7Dn4 TIL that only 55 people finished the first New York City Marathon (held in 1970), yet more than 52,000 runners finished the 2018 New York City Marathon: an increase of more than 94,000%.
rNA0W TIL that the UK has a national fish farm to breed course fish to help restock rivers and stillwaters - it was founded in 1940.
vGJ8 TIL in 1999 in a civil case conducted by the King family, the jury ruled that Martin Luther King Jr. had been a victim of assassination by a conspiracy involving the Memphis police and as well as federal agencies.
k7a7 TIL in 1992 an inflatable bouncy castle took flight with 5 children inside. To save them, a 21 year-old man grabbed one of the trailing ropes, climbed up to the castle 15 metres in the air and pulled each child out, before losing his grip and falling through the canvas roof of a dodgems tent.