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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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4XWAR TIL that the names at the 9/11 memorial are not organized alphabetically, by company or location, but rather by how close of a relationship that person had with those names around them.
NXdAJ TIL of the discovery of chemotherapy. During WWII it was discovered that mustard gas reduced white blood cell counts. In the 1940s, two pharmacologists examined the effects of mustard gas in treating lymphoma in mice. They then treated a patient with nonHodgkin's lymphoma with the chemical agent.
dDxXd TIL that the alpha gal allergy can be limited to only one meat or a specific set of meats with high fat content
jNPKp TIL 200 Ugandan women who earned $1.20 a day breaking rocks into gravel, donated over $900 to U.S. victims of Hurricane Katrina
bVe9 TIL That vacuuming toner dust can cause an explosion from static discharge buildup igniting the toner dust