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TIL the Irish government developed a plan for an invasion and occupation of Northern Ireland in 1970, during the Troubles.

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ox87 TIL - Actor James Woods reported the four terrorists of 9/11 before the attack, but nobody believed him.
8aAAG TIL that after losing a son to drug-related suicide, Carroll O'Connor publicly outed his son's dealer, and pushed for a law allowing families and employers to sue drug dealers to recover losses and costs of drug treatment
bRgN TIL The last words from the Challenger Space Shuttle before it exploded were “Uh oh.”
YQvB TIL Dissociative Identity Disorder (or split personalities) can be so extreme that one personality can show severe allergic to a substance and the other one will not show any reaction at all.
Me7Om TIL the Oxford English Dictionary contains over 170,000 words in current use, whereas a vocabulary of just 3000 words provides coverage for around 95% of common texts. If you do the math, that's 1.75% of the total number of words in use.