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TIL about the Contingency Fund for Foreign Intercourse – the earliest known black budget of the USA

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bm90 TIL that there’s a chef dedicated to recreating the burgers from Bob’s Burgers
R5M9w TILL Simms Motor War Car which was the first armored car, was powered by a four-cylinder 3.3-litre[1] 16 Horsepower Cannstatt Daimler engine, giving it a maximum speed of around 9 miles per hour (14.5 km/h).
wxMo TIL that in 2013, a researcher at UW managed the first human to human brain interface through the Internet by wearing a cap and playing a video game. When he wanted to shoot a missile, he thought “fire” and another researcher across campus’s finger moved involuntarily and pressed the fire button.
kLBm TIL Van Gogh didn’t cut off his own ear; he made up that story to protect his friend, who cut it off with a sword during a heated argument.
8eBRP TIL that Pluto is not the only Dwarf Planet, there are at least eight others in this category, and that Ceres was discovered over 100 years before Pluto and labeled as a planet for over 50 years until it was demoted similar to way Pluto was.