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TIL only the CIA (Cartel In America) can run drugs in the US. Read about Fort Apache being seized by the government after Kramer‘s arrest for smuggling 🏁 Full story in our print edition #powerboat #freebenkramer #vehiculemagazine

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16O18 TIL the .ai domain for artificial intelligence actually stands for Anguilla, a Caribbean island
QJn9X TIL that William Burroughs’ book “Naked Lunch” was written while high. (And banned under US obscenity laws)
MeMeV TIL the Gemini 3 was named Molly Brown in the hope that it wouldn't sink at splashdown. NASA didn't like this and asked astronaut Gus Grissom to change the name, to which he replied "how about the Titanic?". NASA relented, but this was the last time astronauts were allowed to name their capsule.
4X05o TIL that there is a monument to enemas in the Russian spa town of Zheleznovodsk, featuring a bronze bulb held aloft by three cherubs
4OpJ TIL In 1884 two British men cannibalized a dying child after being shipwrecked for weeks, which saved their lives long enough to be rescued. They were then convicted of murder and sentenced to death upon returning to England.