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TIL that intelligence agencies seek what they call "FINCA": information that is Foreign, of Interest, New, Clandestine, and Authoritative.

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kMDe TIL of The Smokey Bear effect which was an indirect result of the Smokey Bear campaign. The Smokey Bear campaign has been so successful at preventing forest fires that it has allowed trees and debris to pile up on the forest floor, indirectly resulting in forest fires that burn larger and hotter.
wo0pM TIL An estimated 5% to 28% of people experience auditory hallucinations as they fall asleep or are waking up. Up to 70% of people have experienced this at least once. Having auditory hallucinations when wide awake is cause for concern though.
Z8gYp TIL:1885 the King of Belgium established a fake charity & got international agreement to let it have control of an India-sized chunk of Africa. For years he fooled the world that he was helping Africans, while he was really enslaving people & made roughly $1 billion. At least two million people died
PYPoe TIL A high school janitor stumbled upon a teacher who took nude photos of a student when he found a CD labeled 300 while cleaning his classroom. He thought it was the Zack Snyder film and reported the teacher after finding out the real content on the disk.
EgPJX TIL that the ancient Greeks placed a coin in or on the mouth of a dead person before burial. It is a myth that they placed a pair of them on the eyes.