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TIL that in the 1950’s the CIA began Operation Mockingbird. The operation was to influence and manipulate the media towards their political and social views. They recruited thousands of American journalists and funded student organizations and magazine fronts to channel their views through.

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VrnQ TIL Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the IMF, once walked out of a job interview at the biggest law firm in Paris. “I was told I should never expect to make partnership because I was a woman. I thought to myself: ‘You don’t deserve me, I’m going…why would I work with that kind of attitude?”
YplYA TIL Why do I poop after eating. Gastrocolic reflex is a reaction the body has to eating food in varying intensities. When food hits your stomach, our body releases hormones. These hormones tell your colon to contract to move food through your colon and out of your body. It makes room for more food.
7rOep TIL that Terry Fox started a marathon across Canada to raise money for cancer research. Today the Terry Fox Foundation has raised over $750 million in his name
X0ajR TIL a space wedding occurred in 2003, with the groom on the ISS and the bride at NASA in Houston. The private ceremony was conducted by video, with the bride standing beside a life-size cutout of the groom. The bride marched in to David Bowie's "Absolute Beginners."
LkAbv Til before British colonization, Persian was the official language of northern India including dynasties such as the Delhi Sultanate and the Mughal empire