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TIL Thanks to the Freedom of Information Act, the CIA released nearly 12 million documents. One set of documents revealed research of possibility that “insane” people may be experiencing multiple “levels of reality” and their brains can’t process this information, leading to mental instability [PDF]

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kOJbW TIL: When FDR died, Eleanor Roosevelt told Harry Truman that the president was dead. When he asked there was anything he could do for her, she replied, “Is there anything we can do for you? For you are the one in trouble now.”
dabK TIL more than 2000 elderly Hollywood writers, unwilling to write for explicit modern sensibilities, are now writing for Chinese television instead. They’re the Emmy-winning minds behind classic TV like Murder, She Wrote, Miami Vice & The Jeffersons.
5DVD TIL the guy who throws his shoes in Austin Powers (Random Task) is a convicted rapist and murderer who also got punched in the balls a lot in an MMA fight.
a8rWM TIL: The first and last fatalities of building the Hoover Dam were a father and his son. They died on the same day, 14 years apart.
0wrKR TIL that the condom-based toilets used by male NASA astronauts to pee came in three sizes: "small", "medium", "large". After some leaking events, the sizes were informally changed to "extra large", "immense" and "unbelievable".