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TIL when you apply pressure directly to the eyeball it can decrease your heart rate

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YpEBx TIL that during an awards ceremony for the Seal Team 6 operators who were on the mission to kill Osama Bin Laden, CIA Director Leon Panetta disclosed classified information in a speech. One of the attendees was Mark Boal, who would go on to write the script for Zero Dark Thirty
OPee TIL In 1988, a government-led drug, money laundering, and nationwide child abuse ring was exposed in Nebraska. In the aftermath, the case’s chief investigator died violently, the abused minors were jailed for accusing their abusers, and a documentary on the topic was banned.
6EElW TIL the drug called Antabuse is sometimes prescribed to alcoholics to help them abstain. If Antabuse is in your system when you ingest alcohol, it produces an immediate and exceedingly unpleasant physical reaction, including a severe hangover.
7rWkZ TIL that a 17-year-old girl who hired two teens to murder her parents appealed her convictions on the grounds of being a minor interviewed by police without parental consent
X0ADr TIL the bronze Nazi eagle emblem from the WW2 German cruiser, Admiral Graf Spee has been recovered in Uruguay and will be melted down and recast as a dove