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TIL that Piqua, Ohio, the setting of the Captain Underpants books, is a real town, and was chosen by the author for its now-discontinued annual Underwear Festival.

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9J1B TIL that during the Iraq war in 2003, the U.S. Military planned to attach chickens atop Hum-Vees in order to detect chemical weapons. The project was named, Operation Kuwaiti Field Chicken (KFC). However, the project failed when 41 of the 43 chickens died within a week of their arrival.
oBwY TIL that during Argentina’s dictatorship, opponents to the regime were drugged, flown out over the Atlantic, and pushed out of planes alive with weights attached to their feet so no bodies would be found as evidence.
N411 TIL over 86,000 people visit the ER each year from tripping or falling over their cat or dog.
gMKvW TIL that when legendary baseball player Yogi Berra died in 2015, the Associated Press obituary accidentally announced the death of Yogi Bear.
64vZ TIL Theodore Kaczynski, also known as the Unabomber, was among twenty-two Harvard students subjected to “horrific experiments” conducted as part of the secret CIA project MKUltra, the same project that produced LSD and whose goal was mind control.