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TIL that Area 51 wasn't confirmed to actually exist by the US Government until 2013.

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neM8B TIL the narrator in the new Call of Duty ColdWar Teaser trailer was a real KGB spy named Yuri Bezmenov, and the speech he gave in 1984 highlights what is happening in America today.
6Z6W TIL that a 47yo Frenchman agreed to pay 90yo Jeanne Calment a monthly fee until she died, then take over her apartment. She would become the oldest human in history, outliving him by 2 years.
E6j7 TIL that D.W. Griffiths, who made the racist pro-KKK film “The Birth of a Nation”, responded to his critics with subsequent films that preached social justice and the first ever movie about an interracial love story.
XDOk TIL, that Chinese smoke around 2.2 trillion cigarettes a year, of which 400 billion are fake, made mostly in illegal cigarette factories in caves below a city in China, often containing 80 percent more nicotine, 130 percent more carbon monoxide and occasionally insect eggs and human feces.
yDbv TIL that in the early Roman Republic, when the lower class got fed up they all left the city until the upper class was willing to negotiate