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TIL the CIA ran Project Fat Fucker in 1952, which resulted in the overthrow of the Egyptian government

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oBGo8 TIL the character Totoro from Hayao Miyasaki's 1988 film My Neighbour Totoro, makes a cameo appearance in the 2010 Pixar film Toy Story 3. Daisuke Tsutsumi, the art director of Toy Story 3, is married to Miyazaki's niece, who was the original inspiration for the character Mei in My Neighbour Totoro.
KO7o6 TIL in 1900, a young Chicago arts student took part in a golf tournament while visiting Paris, recording the best score. This “tournament” turned out to be the Olympics, and she died never knowing she was an Olympic champion, America’s first female Olympic champion no less.
Ryra TIL that in 2005 Samantha Futerman played the role of a girl separated from her sister in the movie Memoirs of a Geisha. In 2013 Samantha was contacted by her own identical twin sister, Anaïs, who had discovered her on YouTube. Neither knew of each other because they had been separated at birth.
jNX4Q TIL that all of Michael Jackson's parents and grandparents lived to be older than 85, with his paternal grandfather even turning 100 shortly before his death
awWM9 TIL of the "Happy ending problem", named that way because it led to the mathematician who proposed it, Esther Klein, and the one who solved it, Georges Szekeres, marrying each other.