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TIL the US in the 1980s gave aid to Iraq in the form of biological weapons material, military training and more.

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MwK8 TIL Ethel Merman’s last film appearance was “Airplane!,” where she played a man who thought he was Ethel Merman.
Avpd TIL The company that made the first real spacesuits for the Apollo program only made women’s undergarments up to that point.
R7VW8 TIL The meeting of presidents President Taft and Díaz in Mexico in 1909 was the first between a president of the United States and a president of Mexico. Because both presidents were bilingual there was no need for interpreters. No one else attended the meeting where they spent 20 minutes alone
EMA0 TIL that the real life Pa from The Little House on the Prairie is suspected, by his daughter, to have killed a family of serial killers
o0VE TIL When flown at half-staff, the American flag should be first hoisted to the peak for an instant and then lowered to the half-staff position