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

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QNQBL TIL that when Jim Morrison returned after his absence during the original recording session of the 11-min song “When The Music’s Over,” his bandmates refused to re-record the song. After being persuaded to layer his vocals on the original version, Morrison recorded his vocals in one single take.
8eExZ TIL South Africa is the first country to voluntarily dismantle its own nuclear weapons it had developed itself
BgEwy TIL about the Summerland disaster, where on 2nd August 1973 a leisure centre on the Isle of Man caught on fire, killing 50 people and injuring dozens more due to poor design and the use of unsuitable, flammable building materials
Xk6R TIL that the IT Crowd made an American pilot with Joel McHale as Roy
b6Rdj TIL when Freud developed the concepts of the id, ego, and superego in psychology, the original German words he used literally meant "The it, I, and over-I". Id, ego, and superego were the words chosen by English translators