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VQAm TIL That for every dollar the US owes another country, it is owed 89 cents in foreign debt
LQ6vQ TIL in 1972 a note left in a locker at JFK Airport demanded payment or bombs would go off on 4 TWA planes leaving that day. Police found one bomb but cleared the other TWA flights. The next day a bomb exploded on a TWA plane at McCarran Airport in Vegas - it was one of the planes cleared to leave NY
M77o0 TIL that scientists have studied the Poop Knife. No, not the one you're thinking of. The story of an Inuit who supposedly created a knife by freezing his poop.
VMQx4 TIL that the words Shit, Science, Ski and Schizophrenia (along with many more) all come from the same Proto-Indo-European root - *skey - which means "to split"
YO6A TIL of the ‘Secret War’, where the CIA recruited 50% of the Hmong population to fight for the US in the Vietnam War. Afterwards, they were completely abandoned.