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TIL There were almost two internets. Then, the CIA destroyed one.

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pYaZ TIL that there is an actual psychological disease which confuses people to think they’re in a dream. Like in Inception when Cobb’s wife kills herself because of this confusion.
W7YNB TIL the Indian city of Vijayanagara was likely the second largest city in the world at the start of the 1500s, with an estimated 500,000 residents. Following a six-month siege, Vijayanagara was abandoned in 1565 and never rebuilt.
vP1wL TIL In 1978 a drunk guy tripping on LSD tried to blow up a dam in Nashville TN w/ his friends in order to loot the submerged town with through the use of scuba diving equipment
ZpwkY TIL about the Toshka Project, which consists in the creation of a second Nile valley thanks to water from the Nasser Lake to increase the share of inhabited land of Egypt from 5% to 25%
PpEL TIL The Shiba Inu nearly became extinct during World War II due to a combination of food shortage and a post-war distemper epidemic. All subsequent dogs were bred from the only three surviving bloodlines.