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TIL in 1989 federal agents seized almost 20 tons of cocaine--worth up to $6 billion from a single warehouse

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M7VGb TIL Manuel Noriega was a real person, a former dictator who sued Activision over using him in the game Call of Duty Black Ops II without his knowing and as a villain. He lost the case.
awRKN TIL that the first movie to use the "pie in the face" gag was 1909's "Mr. Flip", in which the actor Ben Turpin gets hit with a pie after harassing a waitress.
NXdQP TIL the Kimberly Process, by which diamonds are certified as "conflict-free", has been largely abandoned as ineffective. Due to corruption and smuggling it is essentially impossible to tell if a gem is a blood diamond or not.
J1MmV TIL The Japanese government fearing that the Americans occupying Japan would behave as Japanese troops had overseas, set up a front organization (Recreation and Amusement Association) to establish brothels, asking patriotic Japanese women to sacrifice themselves as "comfort women" for the Americans.
8eaBV TIL that a Mother Cow once hid her Baby Calf from a farmer after she gave birth to twins and had to sacrifice its other calf to the farmer