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TIL The journalist who wrote CIA contra-crack story died from a suicide (2 gunshots in the head)

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b9rG0 TIL Standard Barbells don't even adhere to a standard
j6PMa TIL Zhang Zongchang, a Chinese warlord, had proclaimed that he would return only in a coffin if he was defeated in battle. When his forces were pushed back in a campaign, he was true to his word—he was paraded through the streets, sitting in his coffin and smoking a cigar
neG6o TIL that several years ago there was somehow a common cold outbreak at a research base in Antarctica after 17 weeks of complete isolation. No cause was found.
Egdoo TIL that in 1890 an anticlerical journalist (Leo Taxil) pulled off a 12-year prank to humiliate the Vatican involving: inventing a cult of satanic Freemasons, paying his typist to play the part of a Luciferian Templar Mistress, revealing it all to have been a hoax once the Vatican had endorsed it.
ar9L TIL Indigenous Australians weren’t considered Australian citizens until 1967. Until this point they were listed as “fauna”.