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TIL The CIA has admitted to torturing people in a failed attempted to brainwash them.

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6YjQ TIL that Judith Vaitukaitis developed the chemical technique for the first home pregnancy test after trying to use it to diagnose cancer
A5ya TIL there is a cave so big it has its own weather
OG7gY TIL that Leonardo da Vinci was ambidextrous and could write with one hand while drawing with the other simultaneously.
WK7Y TIL there is a “zip bomb” called 42.zip that is only 42 kilobytes when zipped, but is 4.5 Petabytes uncompressed.
1DaV TIL that the year on bottles of wine is the year the grapes were picked, not the year the wine was bottled.