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TIL the US government arrested (Using Patriot Act) and detained a woman claiming to be a CIA agent, argued that she be forcibly drugged (3 drugs), because she was trying to tell Congress that CIA knowingly ignored intelligence for 9/11

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y8Yl TIL a font has been created to allow people to read faster, it works by converting the English alphabet into pix-elated-like symbols and then condenses them. This font is called ‘Dotsies’.
m1vYP TIL that if South Korea enters a state of war, its army becomes subordinated to a US Army general from the Combined Forces Command, not the President or another Korean.
ZWKv TIL the largest stadium in the world is in North Korea and has a capacity of 150,000. It was build purely to outdo South Korea’s Seoul Olympic stadium which has a 70,000 capacity
Meke8 TIL in one of Robin William’s last films, The Angriest Man in Brooklyn, his character Henry stated that his tombstone would read "1951-2014”. Coincidentally, Robin Williams was born in 1951, and died in 2014.
LQV9V TIL that until there used to be an almond-flavoured soft drink called “Dr Nut” which had a squirrel in its logo