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TIL that in 2009 a father revenge raped the man who had previously raped his son.

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rNaj1 TIL the CIA has a venture capital fund it uses to identify and fund various technologies with "national security" interest
oRv9Y Today I learned that soccer player Mark Hughes played two professional games in two different countries for different teams on the same day.
ADZ1x TIL Rian Johnson wanted to show extreme violence in The Last Jedi's final battle, but couldn't do so in a PG-13 movie. To solve this, the planet Crait was covered in a layer of salt which, when displaced by the fighting, revealed a red landscape and made the battlefield appear drenched in blood.
KRyJ TIL Humans’ and Dogs’ brains have evolved to understand each others’ vocalizations to some degree, including dogs understanding human laughter.
b91nZ TIL that the first internal combustion engine was designed in 1661, and would use gunpowder to drive the pistons!