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TIL in the 70’s the CIA had developed a working nearly traceless heart attack gun. It has contributed to many alleged assassinations and has been subject of many whistleblowers, including Matt Simmons who was exposing BP’s lies.

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ANWAw TIL Upton Sinclair, author of "The Jungle", was the Democrat nominee for governor of California in the 1934 election
0d0Ap Today I learned about the original "Waka Waka" song
dLn8 TIL that when conjoined twin Daisy Hilton died, her sister Violet remained alive and attached to her for several days before they were both found dead.
PY6kO TIL:In 1974 artist Marina Abramović displayed her performance art "Rhythm 0"-Where she stayed still for 6 hours and let guests do what ever they wanted to her with 72 items she had placed on a table. One of the items were a loaded gun. The guests started out gentle but got worse after couple of hrs.
x6p9w TIL Homer Simpson is Canadian. In 2003, Matt Groening revealed that his father, after whom Homer was named, was Canadian, and said that this made Homer himself a Canadian.