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TIL, Mark Felt, ex-FBI Ass. Director, had job where he had to find out if Red Cross toilet paper misled consumers into thinking it was endorsed by the US Red Cross.He found that 1)Most people DID use toilet paper &2) did not appreciate being asked about it.He applied & started at FBI the next year.

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nb6P TIL in Mount Dora back in 1961, the 25 richest families got together and built a huge underground bunker for themselves. They kept it secret from the rest of the town and stockpiled weapons to kill their neighbors if they tried to get inside.
rQw4 TIL AIDS was once known as the “4H Disease”, as it affected heroin addicts, homosexuals, hemophiliacs, and Haitians
kDO1 TIL there is an abandoned particle accelerator in Texas that was supposed to be 3 times bigger than the LHC
nWlad TIL that in 1536, Panna Dai, a nursemaid of the Heir of Mewar, sacrificed her son to save the Heir’s life. She made her son sleep on the Heir’s bed and covered him so that the assassin would think that he assassinated the Heir. It worked.
yVGle TIL Abraham Lincoln had already seen the play “Our American Cousin” and did not like it. He went at the insistence of his wife stating, "All right, Mary, I'll go; but if I don't go down in history as the martyr President, I miss my guess."