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TIL that the family of Colonel James E. Sabow who allegedly committed suicide might have actually been murdered due to his findings of Drug trafficking operations on Marine Corps Base El Toro in 1991.

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BgWVK TIL The Marx Brothers radio show Flywheel, Shyster, and Flywheel about an unscrupulous lawyer was orginally called Beagle, Shyster, and Beagle. The title changed after Morris Beagle sued because he was receiving prank phone calls. In show, Groucho's character changed his name because he divorced.
mxkY TIL: Two thousand rats were bred for the production of Indiana Jones and the last Crusade (they had to be bred specially as ordinary rats would have been riddled with disease).
7rYWp TIL that when in North Korea in 2011, graffiti saying “Park Chung Hee and Kim Jong Il are both dictators; Park Chung Hee a dictator who developed his country’s economy, Kim Jong Il a dictator who starved people to death” was found at a Pyongyang college, the entire city went into a 3 day lockdown
woYPP TIL that cats love olives because there's nepetalactone in it, the same chemical that's in catnip!
4n5X TIL: Semen acts as a natural antidepressant for women. “In our studies, women who have unprotected sex have lower levels of depression, as measured on the gold standard evaluation tool, than those who have the same amount of sex with a condom.”