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TIL that economists have discovered that insider knowledge of top-secret CIA coups has been used to make huge financial profits

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W7xeL TIL there's a rock formation in Saudi Arabia about 6 meters high and 9 meters wide, split curiously in half and balanced on two small, natural pedestals. The origin of the Al Naslaa rock formation is unknown.
pmdN TIL that in late 2007, a street in Central London had to be shut down due to reports of a chemical weapons attack. It was actually a Thai restaurant cooking up hot sauce.
WkLOX TIL in 1971 David Scott smuggled a 'Fallen Astronaut' sculpture onto the Apollo 15 lunar mission and placed it on the Moon's surface to "commemorate the astronauts and cosmonauts who have died in the advancement of space exploration."
MP6V TIL Queen Sunanda Kumariratana of Siam (now Thailand) drowned in 1880 in full view of many onlookers – because they were forbidden to touch her, they couldn’t rescue her
BrNve TIL that in 1962, at the University of Texas at Austin, Janis Joplin was voted "ugliest man on campus"