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TIL the CIA considered making a deepfake video of Saddam Hussein “cavorting with a teenage boy” in an effort to destabilize the country before the US invasion.

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KREG TIL The South African health ministry once stapled a leaflet to condoms they distributed
lopY1 TIL of Project Valkyrie: a theorized lightweight interstellar spacecraft that could attain 92% lightspeed. Components are tethered, with the crew 10 km away from the antimatter engine. A system would spray liquid droplets in front of the craft to shield against interstellar dust particles.
PYxjE TIL A Nigerian cook survived 60 hours in an overturned tugboat at the bottom of the Atlantic ocean, and rescue divers were startled when the cook's hand grabbed them as they did a 'body recovery' dive
6EVwJ TIL that singer-songwriter Tori Amos, received a full scholarship to the Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins University at the age of five. She is the youngest person ever to have been admitted. At the age of eleven, she was expelled for what Rolling Stone described as "musical insubordination".
N7Eb1 TIL Archaeologists Have Discovered the World's Oldest Cheese Inside an Ancient Egyptian Tomb Discovered To Be 3,200 year-old