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TIL Giant, astrophysical lasers exist in nature powered by stars, the first being detected around a system 4,560 light years away

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78pJO TIL Dictator Manuel Noriega was allowed by the CIA to traffic cocaine into the US from the 1960s-1980s, until he stopped cooperating with US foreign policy directives. A subsequent US invasion of Panama resulted and he was sentenced to prison.
DQ1Nr TIL a supposedly cursed Lipinski Stradivarius violin was stolen by a small-time weed dealer from Milwaukee who became obsessed with the violin while pretending to be a high-end art thief.
yVZyX TIL Shrek was based on a picture book originally published in 1990.
Dbmg TIL Elliot Ness, the man famous for bringing down Al Capone’s bootlegging empire during Prohibition, eventually became a raging alcoholic and often told glorified stories of his exploits while drinking in taverns.
KOr9E TIL - A day on Venus lasts longer than a year. It takes 243 Earth days to rotate on its axis once, but only 225 to rotate around the sun.