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TIL the CIA spent millions of dollars installing spy equipment inside the body of a cat only to have it run over by a car on its first test mission.

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d8A0j TIL the CIA once failed at bribing Mr Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore, which was then relatively undeveloped. After he revealed this in an interview, the US denied the incident. In a rage, Mr LKY revealed a letter he received from then US Secretary of State and threatened to disclose further information.
lxQa TIL A DEA Admin Judge decided it would be “It would be unreasonable, arbitrary, and capricious for the DEA to stand between those sufferers and the benefits of this substance in the light of the evidence in this record” Regarding Marijuana. Yet the DEA dismissed this.
kOX9E TIL the producers of "Strange Bedfellows" sued Universal Studios, claiming that "I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry" had over 100 common plot points to their film, released three years prior - only to discover that the first draft of the script was written before production started on Bedfellows
AeXa TIL: The United States government spends nearly twice as much money on inmates than they do on students
e6LJ TIL Sony sold more than 12 million 3.5 inch floppy disks… in 2009