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TIL that the first episode of an X-Files spin-off called “The Lone Gunmen,” which aired March 4, 2001, involves a US government conspiracy to hijack an airliner, fly it into the World Trade Center, and blame it on terrorists - thereby gaining support for a new profit-making war.

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JYakm TIL Brazil's Kayapo people rejected money from dambuilding companies. "We have decided that we do not want a single penny of your dirty money... Our river does not have a price, our fish that we eat does not have a price, and the happiness of our grandchildren does not have a price"
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W7wwX Today I Learned that millennial dads are spending 3 times as much times with their kids than their fathers spent with them. Back in 1982 43% of fathers admitted they'd never changed a diaper. Today that number is down to about 3%.