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TIL the US Intelligence Community has a private wiki called Intellipedia

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MGBb TIL: The largest ship in the world once sat at the bottom of the sea as a wreck
VMQGm TIL the Church of Scientology sponsored a car in the 1988 Indy 500. It crashed on the second turn.
nWpZY TIL during the Pacific War, American soldiers comitted war crimes by killing surrendering Japanese soldiers and massacring POWs. in 1943, a secret [U.S.] intelligence report noted that only the promise of ice cream and three days leave would induce American troops not to kill surrendering Japanese.
XE6K6 TIL despite having killed Captain James Cook for kidnapping their chief, the Hawaiians treated Cook's body as if he was a Chief also, giving him royal funeral rights and turning his bones into a religious icon akin to that of medieval saint relics.
Ayyo TIL Plato was originally called Aristocles, later acquiring the nickname Plato (meaning “broad”) because of his muscular physique.