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TIL we only know about MKUltra because while the CIA was trying to destroy all the files on it due to paranoia around Watergate, some of them were sent to the wrong office and not destroyed

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mRVp TIL some owls keep blind snakes in their nests as helpful associates, reducing the abundance of nest parasites
1aMJ7 TIL Through 1970 to 1971 TV networks cancelled some of their most popular and profitable shows including Green Acres, Lassie, Hee-Haw and The Beverly Hillbillies in what is often referred to as The Rural Purge.
0dRG1 TIL that similar to snakes and mongeese, owls and crows are the most bitter rivals in the animal kingdom, and the rivalry is so ingrained in the minds of the two birds that crows who have been raised in captivity and have never seen an owl before will go berserk the first time they see one somewhere
eMG4 TIL: There’s a law in Canada called the “Apology Act” which prevents parties from using an apology as an admittance of guilt in court.
pYZZ8 TIL that only 48 people were rescued out of 212 cruise ship overboard incidents from 2009 to 2019.