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TIL: Mississippi had its own official Stasi-like spy agency dedicated to opposing civil rights. You can search its archives online.

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VM7pD TIL that when Viagra is dissolved in water with flowers in them, the flowers stay erect up to a week longer than usual.
mxdEp TIL since Japanese honeybees don't have big enough stingers to pierce giant hornet exoskeletons, they instead attack by swarming them in "hot bee balls" and cooking them to death. The friction of the buzzing bees can reach 117° F / 47° C at the core of the bee ball.
EYgX TIL a man won the right to a retrial as members of the jury used a Ouija board to contact the victims.
MeoWB TIL that for decades the CIA owned and ran Crypto, a Swiss company that supplied cryptography equipment to many countries; naturally, the machines were rigged to give US spooks access to everyone's communications.
OJdR TIL that according to the FBI Director, the FBI is having a hard time filling positions to help tackle cyber crimes because a lot of the nation’s top computer programmers and hacking gurus are also avid smokers of Marijuana