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TIL of the Westminster pedophile dossier. Compiled by MP Geoffrey Dickens in 1984, it provided evidence of a pedophile ring operating within the British government. It has been missing since 2013. Lead investigators assigned to discover the whereabouts of the dossier resigned after one year.

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v1wjL TIL in 1398, Timur the Lame faced an army that had war elephants armoured with chain mail and poison on their tusks. Timur loaded his camels with wood and hay, and then when the elephants charged, he lit them on fire and forced them onwards. The elephants panicked and turned around.
4XvYw TIL The three organs that give electric eels the ability to generate electricity take up four fifths of its body. They can also control their victim's nervous system and muscles via electrical pulses, so they can keep prey from escaping or force it to move so they can locate its position
KOMwQ TIL East Germans defected by various ways like digging long tunnels under the Berlin Wall, waiting for favorable winds and taking hot air balloons, sliding along aerial wires, flying ultralight aircraft and, in one case, driving a sports car at full speed through the basic, initial fortifications.
wLoPo TIL in 1976, Henry Kissinger became the first honorary Harlem Globetrotter.
JANV TIL there exists a National Raisin Reserve, where US raisin farmers are forced to deposit part of their produce without any compensation. This is done in order to keep the raisin prices up, essentially making this a government run price cartel.