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TIL the CIA planned to kick the British off of the Falklands, send them to Scotland, and give the islands to Argentina.

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Zkka TIL The total value of unused store gift cards in the USA is over $44billion.
5Y9rn TIL that female spies knit coded messages into scarves to pass on secret information during WWII
BrJLW TIL NYC had a higher GDP than Mexico.
VBWjG Today I learned that the comedy folk band 'The Lancashire Hotpots' were forced to change the title of their song "The Beer Olympics" due to copyright claims by the IOC. They then renamed the song "The Beer International Non-Profit, Non-Governmental Sporting Quad Yearly Event."
MR67 TIL that dropping a marshmallow onto a neutron star would create an explosion bigger than 1000 hydrogen bombs.