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TIL the Dewey Decimal system reserves 999 for history of "extraterrestrial worlds"

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wX9o TIL that lead makes things sweet, making lead paint a much bigger problem for children.
4Oo6 TIL Barbera and Hanna experimented with Hillbillies, Romans, Pilgrims, and Indians before settling on the Stone Age for their cartoon “The Flagstones”, which later became “The Flintstones”.
gwj8 TIL: Saudi Arabia beheaded a man for ‘witchcraft and sorcery’ in 2012
GAZME TIL: Japan's Kamikaze attack unit included scuba divers that would walk under ships to suicide-bomb them.
mxGvE TIL that Marlon Brando tried to purchase the rights to a movie about the Iran-Contra scandal using a former CIA connection. The CIA was able to derail this by creating a front company to outbid Brando for the rights. The man they put in charge of this operation was none other than Col. Oliver North