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TIL former Russian president Yeltsin got drunk and wandered into the streets of Washington DC in his underwear, trying to get a pizza.

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E1d87 TIL that Hitler was a German intelligence agent after World War I. His first assignment was to infiltrate the German Worker's Party. Hitler quickly became the face of the party, and five months after the army ordered him to join, Hitler renamed it the National Socialist German Workers' Party.
X5EP TIL a psychiatric hospital in Canada stripped inmates nude, shut them in an empty room and gave them large, sustained doses of LSD as part of a controversial new form of therapy.
7r8jp TIL that the Johnny Cash song “A Boy Named Sue” was written by Shel Silverstein.
neWQd TIL Napalm killed more Japanese than the atomic bombs.
QN9yX TIL that during a dogfight, Pakistan shot down an Indian fighter plane. When the pilot parachuted onto the land, he asked a local boy whether he was in India or Pakistan. The boy replied that he was in India, so the pilot started chanting for India, at which point he was caught by Pakistani official