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TIL that the United States Central Intelligence Agency uses the jingle of the cat food brand Meow Mix as an instrument of torture.

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VJjD TIL there is a long-standing and heated territorial dispute between Canada and Denmark over an uninhabited island. Interestingly, if the island is split in half as recently proposed, it would double the number of land borders of each country.
LAPv TIL that during the 1977 New York blackout, a number of looters stole DJ equipment from electronics stores and as a result, the hip hop genre, barely known outside of the Bronx at the time, grew at an astounding rate from 1977 onward.
ADrbx TIL In males, 80% to 95% of REM sleep is normally accompanied by partial to full penile erection.
wLXyW TIL in Argentina, the seventh son of a couple automatically receives the godfathership of the President to prevent him from turning in to a werewolf
l717 TIL There was a DC Villan who gained special powers by doing cocaine