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TIL that Kevin Costner offered CIA operative and watergate burglar E. Howard Hunt $5 million to tell the truth about what happened in Dallas when JFK was assassinated.

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8eM0Z TIL about failed WW2 plot: Operation Pastorius. In which Americans were recruited by Nazis to sabotage the US from within.
1mJd TIL That George Orwell’s 1984 was banned and burned in the U.S.S.R. under Stalin’s rule for being anti-communism. Meanwhile in the USA, in 1981, it was challenged in Jackson County, Florida for being pro-communism.
0P15 TIL that NASA engineers and employees in the firing room celebrate successful launches with a tradition of eating beans.
bj70 TIL the more (and longer) a person drinks alcohol, the more damage they’ll inflict on the parts of their brain controlling impulse and judgment.
BrGQD TIL: in 1966 alone, The Beatles each earned (in 2016 dollars) $15-24 million