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TIL Christoph Waltz is the only actor from a Quentin Tarantino film to win an Oscar

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lowO1 TIL: 90% of U.S. Dollar bills contain traces of cocaine. In Washington, D.C., cocaine was found on 95% of the banknotes analyzed.
a1J9 TIL the HIV/AIDS conspiracy theory in which the disease was manufactured by the US government, was actually a KGB misinformation campaign, Operation INFEKTION
rNYle TIL That there was a plan to overthrow FDR by top business leaders when he first got elected because of his New Deal.
VBEKk TIL Cats Can Have Right or Left Paw Preference Similar to How Humans are Left-Handed or Right-Handed
VBdPk TIL That following the Messinian salinity crisis, during which the Mediterranean almost completely dried up for 630,000 years, 5.33 Ma ago the Zanclean flood happened: water broke through the Gibraltar Strait, filling the Mediterranean within months at 100,000,000 m³/s – 1,000x flow of the Amazon!