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TIL the CIA’s own inspector general reported that the Reagan administration thwarted federal investigations into drug crimes.

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W777X TIL that much of the justification for the beginning of the Anglo-Zulu war was two surveyors being detained for about an hour and having their smoking pipes and handkerchiefs stolen.
LB7Q TIL; That when you are born and take your first breath, the pressure change in your lungs causes a valve between the two atria in your heart to close and eventually fuse. When this doesn’t happen correctly a baby can have a hole in their heart, but initially everyone had the same hole.
9YQvm TIL Disney uses test chickens to see where mosquitos are in the park. Disney strategically places groups of chickens around the park and regularly test them for mosquito borne viruses to see where mosquitoes are in the park.
eplKb TIL “Stone Cold” Steve Austin decided on his frosty prefix because his then English wife once told him to drink his tea before it got “stone cold”
AN7Lx TIL a 15 year old girl named Marsha Albert was responsible for Beatlemania in the United States in the early 1960’s.