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TIL the CIA Project to Overthrow the King of Egypt was Called Project FF (Fat Fucker)

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e0vAn TIL: "Wolf Tree" is the term used to describe trees that were not cut down during deforestation and left to grow in the new growth forests of New England.
NX408 TIL that Over 50 percent of the world's population relies on rice for 80 percent of it's food requirements
6LVZ TIL that a man spent 28 years in jail before a DNA test concluded that the hair found at the crime scene actually came from a dog.
woeB7 TIL about mail jumping, which is a way of delivering mail by jumping off a moving boat to a dock, putting mail into a mailbox, retrieving the outgoing mail, and then jumping back onto the moving boat. The USPS uses this method to deliver mail to houses on Geneva Lake from June 15 until September 15.
l7PvA TIL That in 1978 Jimmy Carter signed the Home Brew act (H.R.1337) into law, making it legal for small businesses and individuals to brew beer - kicking off the craft brew revolution in the United States and forever changing the world of craft beer.