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TIL a CIA plane crash-landed over Yucatan in Mexico with four tons of cocaine on board. Yes. Four tons.

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BrvPK TIL: Klaus Kinski was described as 'one of the greatest actors of the century, but he was also a monster and a great pestilence' who caused filmaker Werner Herzog to try to murder him. Spielberg offered Kinski the lead in Indiana Jones, to be told 'This script is a yawn-making, boring, pile of shit'
6EN1Q TIL Rob Lowe, Charlie Sheen, Robert Downey Jr., and Sean Penn all went to school together
LQdB0 TIL that botanically, bananas are considered berries, but strawberries are not (because their seeds are on the outside)
1abK8 TIL Gen. Chuck Yeager, a WWII fighter ace, the first human ever to break the speed of sound and considered the greatest test pilot of his generation, is still alive. The last time he surpassed Mach 1 was in 2012, when he was just 89 years old.
BgvEk TIL: The first Territorial Governor of New Mexico, Charles Bent, was scalped alive and assassinated in his home by Pueblo warriors during the Taos Revolt in 1847