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TIL astronomers detected building blocks of life in a planetary system some 455 light-years away

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wLkx7 TIL: In the American Civil War both sides employed logs which were carved, painted and mounted to look like cannons at a distance. This gave the impression that a fort or strong point was better armed than it actually was. They were called "Quaker Cannons" and repeatedly proved effective.
VBBjD TIL that cannabis and hops both belong to the same family, Cannabaceae.
pkDb TIL in 1964 the FBI attempted to blackmail Martin Luther King Jr. into suicide by threatening to make public his sexual indiscretions.
konE TIL that in the 50’s and 60’s the CIA would hire prostitutes to bring back unsuspecting men to safe houses where they would be drugged with large doses of LSD and observed from behind a one-way mirror. It was dubbed Operation Midnight Climax.
oaAo TIL the movie “The Taming of the Shrew” had a tagline that read “"A motion picture for every man who ever gave the back of his hand to his beloved… and for every woman who deserved it.”