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TIL Anderson Cooper spent two summers as an intern at the CIA

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dBAj TIL:The “X” in X-Box refers to the popular multimedia API “Direct X”
0lvN TIL in 1962 the USSR decided to test a 300kt nuclear bomb in space over a populated area, the resulting EMP fused 350 miles of telephone lines, shut down 621 miles of buried power cables and burnt down a power station. The following year they signed & ratified a treaty banning tests in outer space.
78Z87 TIL R2D2 is known as "Little Arthur", or "Arturito" due to the similarities in pronunciation. Some Spanish released subtitled films even have him captioned as Arturito.
LDwP TIL the Soviets had made a prototype laser pistol for use by their astronauts. The pistol was deigned to burn a hole through the spacesuits of enemy astronauts, killing them via suffocation and/or explosive decompression.
GAGbE TIL that in the 1600s, a religious sect called Muggletonians didn't believe in witches was founded.