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TIL I learned that the CIA sold crack to black communities to support rebels in Nicaragua

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eoyJ TIL trains were invented before bicycles
QNMZL TIL that President Richard Nixon often traveled to Camp David, Maryland to catch broadcasts of Redskins' home games that were "blacked out" on TV in Washington DC. He also once reserved a phone line at his Florida White House to receive the play-by-play of a Cowboys-Redskins game in Dallas.
5Y9v9 TIL A Spoonerism is an error in speech in which corresponding sounds are switched between two words in a phrase. For example, a "Blushing Crow" instead of "Crushing Blow."
R5VX7 TIL The colour of an eggshell is determined by the colour of the hens ear lobe. It is nothing to do with diet.
agM TIL there is an “anti-Pluto”, a dwarf planet sharing Pluto’s orbit but located on the opposite side. It even has a moon: Vanth.