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TIL the “holes” in Swiss cheese are made by the same bacterium responsible for body odor

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b9EX7 TIL of Project A119 - a US Cold War plan to nuke the moon
gleA TIL that according to the FBI Director, the FBI is having a hard time filling positions to help tackle cyber crimes because a lot of the nation’s top computer programmers and hacking gurus are also fond of marijuana.
WNro TIL after Olga of Kiev’s husband got murdered, she went after the culprits and not only obliterated the whole family through ruse and deceit, but also destroyed their city. With pigeons.
8eLw8 TIL director and writer of A Knight's Tale, Brian Helgeland, said that he intended to show what Geoffrey Chaucer (played by Paul Bettany) might have been doing that inspired him to write The Canterbury Tales during the six months in which he seems to have gone missing in 1372.
LkKlm TIL that Benjamin Wade, a 19th century "Radical Republican", earned praise from Karl Marx in the preface of Das Kapital for his open criticism of capitalism