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TIL in 1992, a Lawyer and a Judge were looking for files on a former prisoner in a police station near Paraguay. Instead, they stumbled upon archives documenting an international conspiracy involving the torture, murder, and imprisonment of 480,000 people, now known as the Archives of Terror.

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N7PZ1 TIL That the Cuban Missile Crisis began when a CIA operative noticed soccer fields on a Cuban Military Base. “Cubans play baseball, Russians play soccer”
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0wB4j TIL The UK gambling industry spends £1.5 billion a year on advertising, and 60% of its profits come from the 5% who are already problem gamblers
bmb4 TIL During Great Famine, Ottoman Sultan Khaleefah Abdul-Majid I declared his intention to send £10,000 (£800,000 today) to Irish farmers but Queen Victoria requested that the Sultan send only £1,000 because she had sent only £2,000 herself.
VMLWZ TIL that a public beach at California's Pt. Reyes Natl. Seashore was closed after the 2018 US govt shutdown. However, it was not reopened after the shutdown ended; over the month with no human activity, a breeding colony of elephant seals had invaded the beach, picnic area, and even its parking lot.