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TIL The Department of Justice and ICE are responsible for hacking into and planting child pornography on the computers of known pirates in order to arrest them and ruin their lives.

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0d8dL TIL of Jeremiah Haralson, a former slave and a Republican congressman during Reconstruction, actually endorsed Horatio Seymour, the 1868 Democratic presidential candidate. Nevertheless, he would later support Grant's re-election in 1872.
yQNjv TIL that in 2004, scientists engineered goats whose milk could save more than 500,000 kids who die each year from diarrheal diseases — that's more than the number of deaths from AIDS, malaria, and measles combined — but the government has left it languishing in regulatory limbo.
QNRpa TIL that SS doctor Aribert Heim would remove the organs of Jewish prisoners without anaesthetic during his time at Mathausen concentration camp
XEXDD TIL that a rogue artist drew a penis on a rock in the animated children’s series “Maya the Bee"
RyKl TIL that the traditional way to pronounce Julius Caesar, is (yewl-yoos kay-i-sarr), showing where the imperial titles of Russian ‘Czar/Tsar’ or 'Kaiser’, in German, had their origins in Classical Latin and more than 2000 years as a legacy to Caesar’s family name.