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VM01p TIL that a 14 year old boy named John once impersonated an MI5 agent online and "recruited" his best friend into the secret services. The initiation test was to murder... John. John became the first person in the UK to be convicted for inciting his own attempted murder.
7NB7 TIL that one of the only senators ever assassinated was Leo Ryan who was killed by Jim Jones’s cult members while they were in the process of committing mass suicide. He had come to investigate reports from concerned family members.
ep6Eb TIL The film Crazy Heart was produced by Country Music Television and was originally set to be a direct-to-video release. Instead, it grossed nearly 7x its budget and won two Academy Awards.
l7X7K TIL Water lilies grow up from the bottom of the pond like normal plants.
XEGDr TIL Mother’s Day was originally a day for women to protest the killing of their sons and husbands in US Civil War