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TIL that intelligent people are more likely to trust others

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mmnM TIL that the KGB ran a disinformation campaign focused on spreading the rumor that the USA had invented and spread AIDS as part of a biological weapons program
rXKd TIL American Psycho writer Bret Easton Ellis tried to order cocaine from his dealer but instead of texting him, he accidentally tweeted it to his 350k followers.
Mexe8 TIL the "big fat phony" guy from Family Guy is credited as "Holden Caulfield", Protagonist of Catcher in the Rye who often accuses people of being "phony".
KY064 Today I learned that Al green made more royalties from the Big Mouth Milly Bass toy than any other for his song ‘take me to the river’
7rjnp TIL of Alexander Yuvochenko, a survivor of the Chernobyl disaster. Most will recognize him as the man who holds the reactor door open in Episode 1 of the HBO show. Many assumed he had died, but he in fact survived his exposure to the radiation, living for another 22 years after the accident.