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TIL that in the mid-1980’s the Soviet KGB launched “Operation INFEKTION,” aimed at making people believe that the United States invented HIV.

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9gAm TIL there is a “suicide forest” that has absolutely no animal life, where neither GPS nor a compass will work. 100’s of dead bodies are pulled out every year
ebOg TIL: An elephant’s trunk has more than 40,000 muscles. In comparision a human being only has 639 muscles total.
egE4 TIL since it was first released in 1981, The Gods Must Be Crazy has grossed over $60,000,000 worldwide and cost $5,000,000 to make. The lead actor N!xau was paid less than $2000 for his role.
gMvp9 TIL in the original Greek democracy, elections were seen as undemocratic and oligarchic. To them everyone was equal so they selected their leaders randomly in a process called Sortition.
O7Ja TIL that under CEO Carly Fiorina, HP sold over $120 million in computers and printers to Iran despite US sanction policy, through a foreign subsidiary