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TIL that the CIA turned a blind eye to cocaine trafficking, but the reporter who discovered it was fired and harassed by most newspapers

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6978 TIL A university in Pennsylvania sells the Plan B pill in a vending machine.
loQ17 TIL about Formula Rossa, a roller coaster in Dhabi with a top speed of 149mph. This ride requires you to wear safety glasses to ride, and is currently the fastest roller coaster in the world.
Z1wo TIL Abraham Lincoln anticipated his assassination: “On the day of the assassination, Lincoln told his bodyguard, William H. Crook, that he had been having dreams of himself being assassinated for three straight nights.”
Q46d TIL there are 169,518,829,100,544,000,000,000,000,000 ways to play the first ten moves in chess.
PY50w TIL Wolfgang Engels, an East German soldier who had helped build the barbed-wire fences that initially separated the two Berlins, stole a tank and drove it through the wall itself. Despite getting caught in the barbed wire and shot twice, he managed to escape.