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TIL In 1969 after being told the SF Black Panthers were “engaged primarily in feeding breakfast to children” Hoover’s reply implied the agent’s career would be helped by supplying evidence they were “a violence-prone organization seeking to overthrow the Government by revolutionary means”.

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R71Qa TIL the 2013 NASA Astronaut class, which had 4 men and 4 women, is nicknamed the "8-balls"
50dR TIL that in 1984 the French planted a bomb in London to test British security.
D1bGP TIL that the youngest person to serve in World War II was 12 years old and also received a Purple Heart.
LQ0k0 TIL That The Darwin's Bark Spider can build a 2 metre orb web with a silk that ranks as the world's toughest natural fibre and can shoot web at 25 meters of distance.
BPgd TIL that in 1986, nurse Sandra Clarke could not stay with a patient who asked her to stay. When she returned, the patient had died alone. In 2001, she was key in starting No One Dies Alone, a program where volunteers sit with terminal patients who have no one else. The program is now world-wide.