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TIL that Killing Hope, the book about the history of US backed coups around the world, is publicly available on CIA.gov

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OoV8e TIL a New Jersey man was once charged $3,750 for a bottle of wine after the waitress recommended the one that was "thirty-seven fifty."
OXm7 TIL Actress Candace Bergen’s father left $10,000 to his ventriloquist dummy and zero to her. His will said the dummy had “been my constant companion…from whom I have never been separated even for a day.” (The dummy had his own bedroom which was larger than Candace’s).
VBpw4 TIL Of the SS Baychimo, abandoned by her crew in 1931, she floated adrift along the coast of Alaska for 38 years and was last sighted in 1969
x8Mg TIL distance-running has skyrocketed in popularity 3 times in modern history, each time in the midst of a major crisis: during the Great Depression, in the 1970s during a recession, race riots, assassinations, and Vietnam, and 1 year after 9/11 it became the fastest-growing outdoor sport in the US.
4NPX TIL that singer Chris Brown appeared in court in 2012 with his lawyer regarding his probation after assaulting Rihanna. Brown attempted to address the court but was interrupted by his lawyer, who said “I don’t dance; you don’t talk.”