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TIL that cereal company General Mills had an Aeronautical Research Division that produced spy balloons for the American military and the CIA

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wPAJ TIL a man committed to a high-security psychiatric hospital 7 years ago for fabricating a story of large scale money-laundering at a major bank is to have his case reviewed after internal bank documents proving the validity of his claims have been leaked.
YDRP TIL that a prominent American physicist thinks that scientists who are observing dark matter these days could very well be setting off a chain of events which annihilates the universe.
Z8WMB TIL When Congress imposed a gag rule in 1836 to suppress debate about slavery, ex-President John Quincy Adams refused to comply, risking censure and spending the next eight years introducing thousands of antislavery petitions until the rule was repealed.
jNjdn TIL about the Anti-Bloomberg law, which prohibits any county or city in Mississippi from passing laws to restrain portion sizes. It was passed as a response to the Bloomberg law, which limited the size of soda to 16 ounces or less.
Axgd TIL that sailors wore gold ear-rings because the value was enough to bury you in a foreign country.