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TIL that the CIA wanted to commit acts of terrorism inside the US in order to gain support for a war against communist Cuba.

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WkOBY TIL that during their migration, a hummingbird's heart beats up to 1,260 times a minute, and its wings flap 15 to 80 times a second.
eelL TIL that Gordon Ramsay was so impressed with In N Out, after he finished his meal he went through the drive thru to take some home
yLlw TIL in 2002, Sega’s president, Isao Okawa, donated all of his company stock, worth $695.7 million dollars, to save the company from going bankrupt after they pulled the plug on its flagship game console, Dreamcast. He died of heart failure shortly after.
WJKA TIL there is an extremely effective, reversible, cheap, simple, and long-term birth control procedure for men in phase III clinical trials in India
gM6Wb TIL of Chad Varah—a priest who started the first suicide hotline in 1953 after the first funeral he conducted early in his career was for a 14-year-old girl who took her own life after having no one to talk to when her first period came and believed she’d contracted an STD.