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TIL That famous FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover was a closeted homosexual and cross dresser. The mafia gathered evidence of this, and blackmailed him into never publicly acknowledging the mob's existence, let alone investigating them.

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kZgg TIL Time, spatial, and memory distortions are common in police officers after shootings. One officer described a memory of “beer cans” floating past his face, with the word “Federal” printed on the bottom. They were the shell casings from the officer firing next to him.
7rwlP TIL about a condition called Akinetopsia (motion blindness), where a person cannot see moving objects; thus they see things move in "stop-motion," or like a buffering video.
DQaov TIL the King of Hearts appears to be sticking a sword into his own head because he originally held an axe but over centuries English copiers removed the axe-head
N0D8 TIL Russian cruise missiles form p2p networks, hunt in packs and elect an Alpha to lead them. Oh and they’re 40 years old and still in use.
b94BQ TIL The PBS kids show, Arthur, is the longest-running children's animated series in the U.S., and the second longest-running animated series in the U.S., behind The Simpsons. PBS is still putting out new episodes, and 23 seasons in total have been produced and aired since 1996.