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TIL Nixon and Kissinger funded the kidnapping/assassination of a Chilean General who wanted to prevent civil war. CIA provided one of the conspirators with a life-insurance policy and “hush money”, while another received guns, ammunition and $50,000 in cash to carry out the plot.

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0wYGL TIL about the human connectome project, a project that maps the neural connections in human brain, just like the human genome project to map the DNA .
x6epo TIL the gibnut, a member of the rodent family, is called “Royal Rat” in Belize because it was served in a stew to Queen Elizabeth II during her 1985 visit of the country. She declared it tasted “like rabbit” and was perfectly happy to eat it
Kyr6 TIL that every week in Japan, there’s a widely-popular, five-minute-long TV program that features a girl running up a hill. That’s it. Each week, there’s a different girl and a different hill. It’s called, “Zenryoku Saka”.
M7LYV TIL there’s a secret material called FOGBANK that is used in nuclear warheads. "The material is classified. Its composition is classified. Its use in the weapon is classified, and the process itself is classified.”
69458 TIL film composer John Williams is the most Oscar-nominated living person, with 54 nominations. He is also the first person to be nominated in seven consecutive decades.