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TIL that when the CIA opened a Twitter account, their first tweet was “We can neither confirm nor deny that this is our first tweet.”

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4XeNw TIL: Kelsey Grammar's daughter is the voice actor of 'Summer' in rick and morty.
e0KP6 TIL an article in 1968 revealed widespread marijuana use among US soldiers in Vietnam. As a result of the media uproar stateside and subsequent crackdown by the army, soldiers shifted to heroin, which was odorless and harder to detect. By 1973, up to 20% of the soldiers were habitual heroin users.
QwAe TIL casu marzu, a Sardinian cheese, contains live maggots which can jump up to six inches. Squeamish consumers sometimes put the cheese in a sealed bag. Starved for oxygen, the maggots jump around creating “pitter-patter” sounds; once the sounds stop, the maggots are dead and the cheese is eaten.
Z8QV4 TIL that Japanese Honeybees have adapted to kill Murder Hornets by vibrating together in a ball around the hornet and using their combined body heat to cook it alive
GOD7 TIL Russia inflates its military with realistic blow-up weapons that can trick enemy radar such as inflatable tanks and MiG fighter jets and even entire radar stations.