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TIL the cast and crew on the film Titanic were drugged after eating clam chowder laced with PCP.

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Xgr6 TIL A Chicago reporter once asked Frank Sinatra’s first wife what she saw in him, calling him “a 119 pound has-been.” She told him, “Well, I’ll tell you — nineteen pounds is cock.”
W74gA TIL in my cyber security class that tracking pizza deliveries to the Pentagon could reveal classified information:0 Apparently a sudden spike in late-night orders usually happens before a military operation or crisis.
Gdw7 TIL Japan deployed 9,000+ fire balloons against the US in WW2. Japan’s citizens were informed of thousands of casualties and huge fires. In reality, less than 300 of the intercontinental balloons reached american, only 6 people died and most americans did not know they existed.
9P76 TIL Police dogs in most countries are sworn in as actual officers with badge numbers.
Y7pWA TIL about Lisan Al-Din Ibn Al-Khatib, an Andalusian polymath who proposed the idea of transmissible diseases, and more precisely that the Bubonic Plague was transmitted from person to person, centuries before Louis Pasteur and John Snow