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TIL the CIA once paid prostitutes to lure individuals into monitored safe houses in New York, San Francisco, & Marin. The prostitutes then gave their clients LSD and other substances while the CIA watched through one way glass.

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1vDW TIL Grumpy Cat’s facial expression is a result of feline dwarfism. Also, she weighs less than 5 pounds.
nlvb TIL that the film “Being John Malkovich” was difficult to sell to production companies because the writers chose John Malkovich as the titular character. One studio exec asked “Why the fuck can’t it be Being Tom Cruise?”
WkPYB TIL it has been established so far that 928 prisoners attempted to escape from the Auschwitz concentration camp complex (878 men and 50 women). For 196 prisoners the escape finished with success and the majority of them lived to see the end of the war.
69doZ TIL that it was calculated that it would have taken the concrete for the Hoover Dam 125 years to cool if it was poured as one continuous pour. Instead giant concrete blocks in columns were poured and then cooled by a series of internally contained pipes of cold water, greatly reducing cooling time.
Db1v TIL: the Non Human Rights Project a small team of lawyers who are trying to give intelligent animals legal rights like we have.