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TIL Carlos Mencia was dropped from a New Orleans charity event after saying, “I’m glad Hurricane Katrina happened. It taught us an important lesson: Black people can’t swim.”

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b9dOQ TIL a defector from the Russian GRU revealed that if war broke out with the US, Russian agents planned to poison the Potomac River with chemical or biological weapons, targeting the residents of Washington, D.C.
y86v TIL John Stockwell estimated over 6 million people had been killed due to CIA covert ops back in 1987.
X0KX6 TIL that the cofounders of Activision created a joke game for the Atari 2600 where the only gameplay was raising and lowering Venetian blinds on a window. The game was a reference to a lawsuit between Atari and Activision over the use of the "Venetian blind" coding technique.
5YE78 TIL at the 2015 Rugby World Cup finals, a boy went on to the pitch to celebrate with the winners but was tackled by a steward. One of the New Zealand players intervened, returned the boy to his mother and then gave the boy his gold World Cup medal
4evg TIL a judge dismissed animal-cruelty charges against a police officer accused of sticking his penis into the mouths of five calves in 2006, claiming a grand jury couldn’t infer whether the cows had been “tormented” or “puzzled” by the situation or even irritated that they’d been duped out of a meal.