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TIL that the CIA funded Various African Civil Society Organizations (Such as the American Society of African Culture) to counter communism within the African Diaspora.

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WdRN TIL the screen on the window of your microwave oven keeps your face from melting. The size of the holes in the screen are vastly smaller than a the wavelength of a microwave, effectively blocking them.
l665 TIL that Venezuela is the top winner in the Big Four beauty pageants: Miss World, Miss Universe, Miss International, and Miss Earth, and was the second country after Brazil to win all four.
NX0jP TIL that Euskara, also known as the Basque language, is one of the oldest languages spoken on Earth and has no proven connection to any other known language.
Zp4bD TIL that Otto Warmbier was an American college student who was imprisoned in North Korea in 2016 on a charge of subversion. In June 2017, he was released by North Korea in a vegetative state and died soon afterward. His family was awarded $240k in seized North Korean assets.
rJQW TIL After Rat-Packer Sammy Davis Jr died in 1990, his Widow soon discovered that he was nearly broke and owed back taxes. She then had his body exhumed to strip him of the $70,000 worth of jewelry he had been buried with.