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TIL the Iowa Writer’s Workshop was used to fight communism abroad and domestically from the 1940s through the 1970s, and received substantial funding from the CIA to do so.

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16a5D TIL about a Chinese cooking method called 'Velveting', which is a cornstarch and egg mixture that you soak meats in for a few hours prior to cooking. This provides more thermal mass which cooks the meat slower and creates a moisture barrier that seals in the juices for exceptionally tender meat.
KpE4 TIL when North Korea sank a South Korean Warship in 2010, South Korea responded by blasting the hit K-Pop song “Hit your heart” across the border using large military loud speakers.
OoxY1 TIL in 2012 an employee at a Bumble Bee Tuna factory was killed when he was cooked in an oven with 12,000lbs of tuna.
aKgA TIL of an extinct species of penguin that stood as tall as LeBron James (6'8")
a8kBN TIL about Kazuo Nagano, a Japanese fraudster murdered at home in front of 40 reporters after he was caught stealing 12 billion yen from the elderly. None intervened and the killer only got 10 years in prison.