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TIL that Richard Branson of Virgin Airlines has spent less than 1/10th of the $3 billion that he pledged to commit to fighting global change in 2006.

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yVLjX TIL that Operation Denver was an active measure disinformation campaign run by the KGB in the 1980s to plant the idea that the United States had invented HIV/AIDS as part of a biological weapons research project at Fort Detrick, Maryland.
oBkoE TIL that when British scientists discovered homosexual behavior in penguins in 1911, they were so shocked that they published the study in Greek so it would remain accessible to only a few scientists.
D57p TIL It Is Illegal For Cops to Set Up Narcotics Checkpoints (City of Indianapolis v. Edmond), but They Still Put up Signs Warning of them Hoping to Catch Drivers Driving Erratically or Making Illegal U-turns
XVj TIL when Einstein died, his brain was taken out of him by a doctor who later disappeared with it. 23 years later, a reporter tracks the brain down to find the brain in hundreds of pieces.
b98p9 TIL about Grammy winning musician Janis Ian. At 16, while on tour & after performing late at night on a tv show, she fell asleep on her chaperone's (a female family friend) lap. Bill Cosby saw this, pronounced her a "lesbian", and actively attempted to blacklist her from all television.