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TIL Russian Spetsnaz forces used an aerosolized fentanyl derivative to incapacitate Chechen separatists in the Moscow Theatre Hostage Crisis of 2002. About 130 of the 850 total hostages died partly due to the Russian government refusing to tell doctors what the chemical agent was.

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xBZw TIL the FDA recognizes over 70 different types of cheeses, not including nacho cheese. This means that food producers can call anything “nacho cheese.”
X0MYP TIL The CIA uses music to torture prisoners. Some songs include the Meow Mix commercial song, Barney & Friends theme song, Sesame Street theme song, Real Slim Shady by Eminem, and more
egQ5 TIL ‘It’s always sunny’ was only given $200 for their original pilot episode
QNMZL TIL that President Richard Nixon often traveled to Camp David, Maryland to catch broadcasts of Redskins' home games that were "blacked out" on TV in Washington DC. He also once reserved a phone line at his Florida White House to receive the play-by-play of a Cowboys-Redskins game in Dallas.
d8wN7 TIL that a British inventor created an earthquake bomb, which was used in WWII to great effect to destroy bomb-proof installations such as submarine pens. The same inventor later invented a bouncing bomb, which would skip across water to avoid torpedo nets and destroy dams