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TIL that the I.C.’s oldest member, the Naval Intelligence Enterprise (NIE), can trace its origins back to the revolutionary era.

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kO817 TIL there have been several reported cases of people dying from laughter, including Greek philosopher Chrysippus (279-206 BC), who died from laughing too hard at his own joke about a donkey eating figs and drinking wine.
x641o TIL, the first Graecopithecus skeleton was found in 1944 by German soldiers digging a bunker. Graecopithecus were an ancestor of homo sapiens that lived about 7.2 million years ago. The bones were damaged by Allied bombing in the closing days of WWII.
N4lN TIL Drug-sniffing dogs are wrong more than 50% of the time
16RNd TIL the A's baseball team used to have sheep grazing in the outfield
64VQ TIL Brandenn Bremmer was a genius–had an IQ of 178, read books at 18 months old, played the piano at age 3, and started college at age 11–who committed suicide at age 14 with no signs of depression, suicide note, or pressure to achieve from his parents