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TIL the FBI recruited a Mafia enforcer to use “illegal interrogation techniques” on KKK members to find the bodies of three missing civil rights workers. It worked.

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KOrRw TIL that 45% of pregnacies in the US are unintended
DQx6g TIL the African Union headquarters built in Ethiopia in 2012 were entirely funded by the Chinese government, who reportedly spied on the building for 5 years via hidden microphones and an IT system that sent files to Shanghai daily.
PY6Z TIL that some people, due to a rare genetic mutation, only need to sleep for about four hours a night. Margaret Thatcher, James Franco, and Martha Stewart have all been suspected to have this condition.
Brdjk TIL Eddie Murphy was only 22 years old when he performed the iconic Delirious stand-up set
OoWk1 TIL Laurel Hubbard pleaded guilty to careless driving causing injury after an incident in 2018 which left a driver with severe spinal injuries. Hubbard was discharged without conviction.The judge ordered that Hubbard's name be suppressed to avoid publicity as she trained for the Olympics.