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TIL Truth serum is real and considered torture

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R9P6 TIL of the Battle of Long Tan, where 106 Australian troops beat back and defeated a Vietcong force of ~2000
QJ4rL TIL that the Hudson Bay’s Company, the de facto government of early British North America, not only still exists but owns Saks Fifth Avenue
lZYa TIL Roald Dahl wrote the screenplay for You Only Live Twice
78O9r TIL of the Bonnacon, a legendary creature with the head and body of a bull, but with horns curled inwards, making them useless for fighting. As such, it would run away from hunters and predators, squirting caustic/fiery excrement up to 2000ft (600m) in it's wake
m1kxo TIL Spike Lee negotiated with a Brazilian drug lord to allow him to film Michael Jackson's 96 music video 'They Don’t Care About Us' in a Rio de Janeiro slum. The drug kingpin replied “With Michael Jackson here, this will be the safest place in the world.”