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TIL Operation CHAOS was a domestic espionage project conducted by the CIA to spy on the student antiwar movement

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m1l0p TIL German author Friedrich Nietzsche would send letters calling for the German emperor to go to Rome to be shot & called for military action against Germany. He called for the Pope to be jailed & all anti-Semites to be shot. He also stated he created the world & signed his letters as 'Dionysus.'
ROXa TIL: Only about 8% of the world’s money exists as physical money, the rest is on computers
WNN9 TIL 14 year old Kurt Cobain announced to a school mate that he would be a superstar musician, get rich and famous, kill himself and go out in a blaze of glory like Jimmy Hendrix.
7rrWZ TIL the wreck of the Titanic is so deep in the ocean that there's very little oxygen so it doesnt really rust. Instead it is being slowly consumed by anaerobic bacteria (a kind that doesn't need oxygen to live). Within a few hundred years, a pile of iron ore will be all that remains of the titanic.
awlZJ TIL The first movie ever released on DVD was Twister