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TIL Actor Tommy Lee Jones and former Vice President Al Gore were roommates in college.

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gMEWX TIL Operation Midnight Climax was established in order to study the effects of LSD. Sex workers on the CIA payroll were instructed to lure clients back to the safehouses, where they were given LSD and studied through a one way glass to see if this could help the CIA's mind-control research program.
69757 TIL: Between 1663 and 1673 France sent "Filles du Roi” (women) to New France (Canada) 'as an incentive' for male workers who had finished their contracts to remain in the new colonies.
woKP1 TIL that there are more than 160 endangered languages in the United States alone. In addition to many Native American languages, Cajun French, Eastern Yiddish, and Martha's Vineyard, Hawaii, and Plains Sign Language are all endangered.
EK0x TIL a WW1 homing pigeon saved 194 men by continuing her flight after losing a leg, an eye and having been shot through the chest.
0wWGR TIL If a single ecoli bacterium had limitless resources and space, within 48 hours it would have split enough times into a colony with a mass 4000x that of the Earth