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TIL there is a MI6 subreddit and it’s set to private

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wRdY TIL in 2010 the Walt Disney Company nearly sold the ABC network, the sale was cancelled because of an FBI investigation into insider trading
dD66d TIL Kepler discovered angular speeds of each planet at aphelion and perihelion, as measured from the Sun, produced consonant ratios. He wrote each planet followed scales: Mercury has the most musical range while Venus only has one note
eprG4 TIL there's an abandoned L1011 Tristar on a random beach in Benin. It isn't clear why or how it got there. The interior is well preserved and someone still cleans it.
0wVvN TIL in 1869, George Hull hired people to make a stone statue of a man, bury it, then later pretend to discover an ancient giant. The hoax was so lucrative that P.T. Barnum offered $50,000. The owner declined. Barnum had a replica made and said he had the real giant and the owner had the fake.
ZbvQ TIL: A former chemist admitted to the tampering of nearly 40,000 drug cases, making them falsely positive.