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TIL that the CIA secretly spiked the bread from a bakery in the French village of Pont-Saint-Esprit with enormous quantities of LSD as part of its cold war mind-control experiments.

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1NJX TIL that in 1941, more than three million cars were manufactured in the United States. Only 139 more were made during the entire war. Ford turned out one B-24 bomber every 63 minutes for 24 hours a day.
WJlL TIL JFK purchased 1,200 Cuban cigars just hours before he ordered the Cuban Trade Embargo in 1962.
R7REa Microbes could thrive on Saturn's icy moon.
166GV TIL Men are twice as likely to engage in gambling as women (69% compared to 36%) and they are 2.5 times as likely to have gambling problems (20.1% compared to 7.8%)
D16pP TIL Riding shotgun was a Wild West expression used for the person who rides next to the driver of a stagecoach for protection against bandits.