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TIL Homeland Security convinced a man to fly to Puerto Rico to try and dig up $1M worth of cocaine that he’d heard was buried there. After he was unsuccessful (twice) they just dug it up themselves and arrested him when they tried to give it to him.

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wWXY TIL Tommy Lee Jones is the face of the advertising campaign for Boss canned coffee in Japan, and has been for some time
Lk8G0 TIL in 1990 the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird set a speed record when it travelled from LA to Washington DC in a bit over an hour, with an average speed of 2,144 mph.
nejPd TIL the Soviet Union gave John F. Kennedy a dog named Pushinka. Pushinka was the daughter of Strekla, one of the first dogs in space.
6EZY TIL that Galileo would have discovered Neptune if the planet hadn’t begun its retrograde motion that very day.
8K8V TIL 75% of all alcohol consumed in Ireland in 2013 was done so as part of a binge drinking session.