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TIL Susan Rice persuaded Bill Clinton to not take Osama Bin Laden into custody in 1997.

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mJ4x TIL that after the xkcd comic “Time” was posted, it spawned a 67000-post, 3300000-views thread whose regulars developed their own Time-based culture, creating their own mannerisms and vocabulary. It got so bad that newcomers to the thread could barely understand the latest posts.
NWWb TIL Moles have worm “larders” where they keep up to 1000 worms. Their saliva paralyses the worms and they store their still-living prey for later consumption.
0lMp TIL Gunsmoke, the longest running television series of the 20th century, was cancelled so abruptly that CBS didn’t even bother to tell the cast and crew. They read about it in trade publications the next day.
kJ9ve TIL Carlos Mavroleon, heir to a shipping tycoon, was pressumed dead after a trip to France. He ended up in Pakistan and returned home 2 years later, now a muslim and fluent in Pashtun. He mingled in high society, left again to fight the soviets in Afghanistan, and later became a war correspondent
W76bL TIL dry pet food became popular during WW2 because canned (tin) foods became rationed