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TIL CIA’s official motto is “And you shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free.”

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WKZ9 TIL the Louvre was originally built as a fortress in 1190 to protect Paris from the Vikings
Wkj7B TIL the Japanese Shinkansen train network opened in 1964 and consists of 1,717 miles of track with trains reaching 200 MPH or 320 KM/H. Over the Shinkansen’s 50 year history there have been over 5.6 billion riders & not a single death or injury due to accident.
V0w4 TIL There is an Island in the Bahamas Inhabited Only by Swimming Pigs
E1XDp TIL that the treasure hunting company, Odyssey, discovered the ship wreck of the HMS Sussex (1694) which had up to $500 million worth of gold on board in 2001. Despite a deal with the British government retrieve the loot, Spain refuses to let a team survey the site to this this day.
jNyKX TIL about the power of placebo. In a 2002 study spanning two years, people with osteoarthritis improved equally whether they were given knee surgery or tricked into thinking they received it.