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TIL the US Intelligence Community has a private wiki called Intellipedia

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eMg5 TIL: Someone took a shit that smelled so bad they turned around a flight from Heathrow to Dubai after a half hour.
P6Ow TIL that in 2010, Haisong Jiang ran through the security gate of Newark Airport to give a goodbye kiss to his girlfriend. His actions prompted a 6-hour-long security closure of the airport, delaying over 100 flights and 1600 passengers. Mr. Jiang’s crime was declared a misdemeanor.
78AWx TIL that when Christopher Mintz-Plasse filmed Superbad, his mother was required by law to be on set during his sex scene as he was still a minor at the time.
6EyLX TIL that Orson Welles once met Hitler, but Welles was unimpressed and thought the Nazi Party had no chance of winning
kJYDe TIL In the 1980s, an obscene image was snuck into one of the ice cubes in a Coca-Cola ad in South Australia. The company recalled and destroyed all of the posters, and the artist responsible for the image was fired and sued.