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TIL that the CIA regularly kidnapped people overseas and transferred them to other countries to “torture, detain and interrogate” them outside the law.

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kneB TIL in 2008, the Chilean 50 peso was misspelled as “CHIIE” instead of “CHILE,” with a second “I” in place of the “L". When the error was brought to light in 2009, Gregorio Iniguez, the director of the Chile Mint, and others were fired from their jobs.
KJyQ TIL In 2009, the State of Arizona put a lady named Marcia Powell in a human cage and cooked her in her own excriment.
rWn0 TIL An entire town was completely destroyed by a single, massive tornado. Population is currently zero and there are no plans to rebuild.
MMAK TIL there is a $5 fine at the flight school Top Gun for any staff member who references the movie.
6EZgZ TIL the ancient Greeks established a colony in the middle of the 6th century BC named Odessos, after Homer's epic Odyssey. The area of the settlement changed hands many times before it was renamed Odessa, now part of Ukraine, in 1795.