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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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veJ7 TIL that the average Iranian is (slightly) less religious than the average American.
DQ9Ng TIL that NORAD tracks the big jolly man that is Santa Claus and also provides a couple facts about him and his sled
NpMe TIL the word “Oxymoron” is from the Ancient Greek words “sharp” and “dull” (smart and dumb) which makes the word “Oxymoron” an oxymoron itself.
RmO8 TIL: The U.S. Federal tax code has 74,608 pages (187 times longer than it was a century ago)
o1Qr TIL that Chinese armed forces use crossbows at all unit levels to stop persons carrying explosives without risk of causing detonation.