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TIL Greenday's American Idiot was released 20 years ago August 6th

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OGjve TIL That we only know about MKUltra because 20,000 pages of records were filed incorrectly
eyLk TIL Thomas Jefferson created his own Bible, 46 pages long, using a razor he cut and pasted selected verses. It excluded angels, references to the Trinity, and all miracles by Jesus including the resurrection.
dm97 TIL that Robert Downey Jr. once rescued an elder woman by using his jacket to tie around her wound and ordering people to call an ambulance. The woman’s granddaughter thanks him fifteen years later.
dgg7 TIL the human retina is actually brain tissue, you see with an exposed part of your brain.
okvr TIL that in 2009, computer scientists created a system that composes a realistic picture from a simple freehand sketch, pulling photos from the internet: Sketch2Photo