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awWjJ TIL that the band Savage Garden got their name from a quote in the book The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice
p8BGZ TIL That pencils never actually contained lead, people just called it that cause they thought graphite was a type of lead.
Vjek TIL that Al Queda’s strategy specifically involved using terrorism to provoke the West into long wars in numerous places that would lead to its financial collapse.
XpO8 TIL: Israel’s history of selling USA’s secrets to China goes back to the 1980’s. China acquired advanced military tech & weapons from Israel then re-exported to Pakistan, Iran, etc. Also, Israeli military companies opened offices in China for sales. CIA said profit was “several billion dollars.”
b6pl9 TIL about the Roughnecks of Sherwood Forest. They were American oil drillers who traveled from Oklahoma to the UK and helped contribute over one million barrels of much-needed oil to fuel the war effort against Germany during WWII. This oil was crucial to the Allies' victory over the Axis powers.