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TIL The first vending machine was in Egypt and dispensed holy water, not Coke

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woMro TIL in 1978, Leo Ryan,member of the U.S. House of Representative traveled to Guyana to investigate claims that people were being held against their will by Jim Jones at the Peoples Temple Jonestown settlement. He was shot and killed there, as he and his party were attempting to leave.
R5xyl TIL that during the Cold War, the CIA experimented with using pigeons equipped with tiny cameras to conduct aerial surveillance. While it sounds like a joke, pigeons were genuinely deployed for spy missions!
j6BdX TIL that Campbell Soup considered litigation against Andy Warhol's soup can paintings but instead embraced them.
LXLm TIL, that in December 2011, a US court ruled rape an occupational hazard in the US armed force.
JY1ZV TIL 8 million dog mummies have been discovered in the catacombs of the sacred temple of Anubis in Egypt