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TIL: That in 1942 Julia Child, a well-known celebrity chef, was hired by the OSS which later became the CIA.

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J1ydv TIL Bermuda has no indigenous population, and has only been permanently settled since 1609.
NapP TIL a British soldier managed to get a longbow kill during WW2, the only recorded one during the war as well as the most recent one.
v1vL8 TIL in 1968 over 6,000 sheep died in Utah after a mishap at a chemical weapons test range some 50 miles away. A cannister aboard a spray plane malfunctioned, dispersing the gas to a height of 1,400 ft instead of the intended 150 ft.
7ALx TIL that the Harry Patch was the last Tommy to survive the horror of the trenches of WWI. He died aged 111 in 2009. He never forgot those lost and always made sure to remember lost Germans as well as Allied troops.
VMva0 TIL that in India an estimated 1.2 million people have died of snake bites since 2000.