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TIL the Reagan Administration laughed about the AIDS epidemic during three separate press conferences

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oBZ4r TIL that it is estimated that the world's 25 million tons of spiders kill 400–800 million tons of prey per year.
4kM5N TIL: The CIA unsuccessfully tried to assassinate the late Cuban dictator Fidel Castro over 634 times, including using an exploding cigar
gr6Gb TIL Steven Seagal released a dancehall song in 2004 called “Strut” in which he sings in a fake Jamaican accent and his first line is “me want the poonani.”
e1o6 TIL in 2006 British historian David Erving was sentenced to 3 years in prison for denying the Holocaust in a speech he gave in 1989.
dZod TIL that all Tabasco Sauce is manufactured in one factory owned by the same family since 1869.