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TIL sharks are 90 million years older than trees

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Z8ZVa TIL that the Joint Chiefs of Staff came up with 'Operation Northwoods', a proposal made to JFK that would allow the CIA to carry out false flag attacks in America. Blame was to be put on Cuba, providing America with the justification for military intervention. JFK rejected the proposal.
byQZ TIL Hans Zimmer composed the music for the Spider Pig song in The Simpsons Movie.
v1Z47 TIL that Mozart had an extreme dislike for the soprano Adriana Ferrarese del Bene. She had a strange tendency to bob her head to low and high notes, and knowing this, Mozart chose to fill her showpiece with constant harmonic leaps. He took great pleasure watching her bob her head "like a chicken".
XEYvD TIL Lyndon B. Johnson gave interviews from the bathroom because he didn't want the conversation to stop [said presidential biographer Doris Kearns Goodwin]
Wka7o TIL the caribou/reindeer is now essentially extinct in the lower 48 US states