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TIL the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) failed 95% percent of the time to stop undercover investigators from smuggling weapons or explosive materials through screening.

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5Y7ln TIL the sound of dogs barking in Jane's Addiction's song "Been Caught Stealing" is not added to the song but actually the singer's dog trying to get into the singing booth as he was recording it.
xV4Gb TIL Naturalist Thomas Savage went to Africa and acquired the skull and bones from an unknown ape species, which he described in 1847. The ape is known today as western gorilla
YpyAr TIL Crusader Rabbit was the first animated cartoon series specifically made for television. Airing in 1950, the main character Crusader Raddit and his sidekick Rags engaged in 4-minute cliffhanger dilemmas
Vd0k TIL Jose Mujica, famous President of Uruguay, was kept imprisoned by a dictator at the bottom of a well for 2 years.
x4E5 TIL that the archived materials from Helen Keller’s life were destroyed by the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center.