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TIL In the 1950s the CIA made a fake sex tape featuring the president of Indonesia in an attempt to destroy his career.

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nWGao TIL a group of engineering students from Purdue University built a licking machine to learn that it took 364 licks to get the the center of a tootsie pop. A conflicting mechanical licker built by a University of Michigan student took 411 licks. When licked manually, studies have taken 144-252 licks.
Jjbk TIL of the 1561 celestial phenomenon over Nuremberg; a reported incidence of a great space battle over Germany in the middle ages. There was even a crash landing outside the town!
8rr4 TIL that since 1945, the USA has attempted to overthrow more than 50 foreign governments, most of which had been democratically-elected
0AgL TIL the Blob movie is based on a police report from 4 Philadelphia police officers who witnessed a glittering, glowing, humming , purple glob that had fallen from the sky. It tried to climb a phone pole but evaporated when they touched it.
OGP94 TIL That there are more trees in Canada than there are stars in the Milky Way - around 300B trees in Canda vs ~100B stars in the Milky Way