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TIL Over 30 Of Paul Walker’s Cars Were Stolen Within 24 Hours Of His Tragic Death

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Doaj TIL that the CIA hired a magician to train agents in sleight of hand techniques for use in their mickey-slipping LSD experiments…
oRpKL TIL Sir Ben Kingsley was born Krishna Bhanji but changed his name and noticed an immediate uptick in job offers, from "We don't quite know how to place you" to "When can you start?"
JY8nk TIL: On August 4, 1945 the Soviet Union used the Young Pioneer Organization as a front to gift the Great Seal of the United States to a US Ambassador. It was bugged. It remained in his office for seven years before detection.
a8VwN TIL the oldest company in the world, Kongō Gumi, was founded in 578 A.D.
X0B0X TIL that out of 20,000 people the Khmer Rouge sent to Cambodia's notorious S-21 prison, only 12 survived