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TIL Christopher Boyce, a college drop out who despised the CIA was given high level security clearance to handle top secret CIA wires. He then sold these top level secrets to the Soviet Union through its embassy in Mexico City. The story was a top selling book and movie "The Falcon and the Snowman"

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ZLoQ TIL that the author of ‘Fight Club’ once played a David Bowie track repeatedly on a jukebox to annoy other novelists that were trying to pitch a book to a publisher at a bar. It worked and the movie adaptation was made a few years later.
X0V86 TIL Orval Faubus, who had opposed the integration of the Little Rock Nine as Governor of Arkansas, later endorsed civil rights activist Jesse Jackson for President in 1984 and 1988.
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