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TIL on Christmas, 1992, George H. W. Bush pardoned 6 Reagan administration officials involved in the Iran-Contra scandal

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kOJlm TIL a scottish hacker claimed to have hacked into NASA and found them to be airbushing out UFOS of hi-res satellite pics and evidence of an unknown 2nd top secret US military deep space program.
n8M7 TIL that in many states, it’s completely legal to ride in the bed of a truck or trunk of a car, and in many others, it’s restricted in other ways(over 18 only, etc.)
KYlGE TIL that the reason we are seeing bigger cars in the US, is because the government made a formula that incentivizes manufacturers to build bigger cars
epyl6 TIL octopuses deliberately throw shells at each other. Researchers found that 66% of throws were made by females, often in response to mating attempts. For a creature with no thumbs or rotator cuffs, they had a 17% hit rate.
MeKL0 TIL in 2014 a stray cat kept wandering into the lynx enclosure at the St. Petersburg Zoo in Russia in search of food. She was later adopted by the zoo after she and the lynx became friends.