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TIL Playboy featured a transgender model in 1991

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6EdeZ TIL In 1990 the USSR and PepsiCo made a deal to exchange Pepsi syrup for vodka and a small fleet of Soviet warships including 17 submarines, a frigate, a cruiser and a destroyer. Until PepsiCo sold the ships to Sweden a few days later for scrap, Pepsi was the 6th largest navy in the world
RZZ9 TIL Union General John Sedgwick, shortly after yelling “They couldn’t hit an elephant at this distance” at the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House, was shot under the left eye and fell down dead.
5YBoQ TIL rich Ancient Romans would eat dinner from a reclined position, on a chaise lounge esque furniture they called "kline"
ANrVw TIL the Great Pyramid of Giza is not the one with the ‘cap’, but rather the one behind it in most pictures. There is only a 6ft/2m height difference between the two.
yLZM TIL the ATF set up a sting operation during which they hired and then arrested a mentally retarded man, allowed armed felons to leave the store, arrested four of the wrong people, paid such high prices for guns that people sold them to the agents at a profit, and eventually got burglarized.