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TIL that a lifetime of thought, bottled up, weighs about as much as one mosquito.

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N7VQE TIL that after he was shot down and captured by the USSR in 1960, CIA pilot Gary Powers tried not to share intelligence with the KGB, but he was hampered by western press. A KGB major stated "there's no reason for you to withhold information. We'll find it out anyway. Your press will give it to us."
gM8o4 TIL that no one could describe the color 'blue' until modern times
EgBLP TIL about the rubber concession system in French Equatorial Africa. According to writer Adam Hochschild it led to a population reduction by 50%, similar to that in the CFS.
OGndX TIL Pink Floyd's song "Is There Anybody Out There?" features dialogue from the 1967 Gunsmoke TV episode 'Fandango'. The actress who asks, "Is it unsafe to travel at night?" is Diana Muldaur, who played doctors in the original Star Trek series and Dr. Pulaski in ST:Next Generation.
R55x6 TIL many Native American tribes used fire for thousands of years to manage forest brush for small game hunting as well as creating grasslands for big game to be hunted. This resulted in many species of plants, animals, and fungi to become extinct as the forest became a fire-adapted ecosystem.