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TIL 1992 an officer in the Soviet KGB defected to the west brining with him thousands of notes he took during his career in the KGB archives. These notes reveal the KGB’s hand in framing the US government for the Kennedy assassination, spreading the rumor that AIDs was a US invention, and much more.

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OoXa TIL A man drove his 1990 Honda Accord for one million miles and was thrown a parade by Honda itself.
W7Y5L TIL of the Lizardman's Constant, the idea that in any given poll roughly 4% of answers will be comedic or malicious and not representative of the respondent's true thoughts, such as answering "Yes" when asked if they believe Lizardmen control the world.
9aDm TIL that in 2013 Robert Downey Jr. beat out George Clooney in a bidding war for movie rights to Black Mirror (UK) episode ‘The Entire History of You’ because they loved it so much.
lrmA TIL We do not eat 8 spiders in our sleep every year and it was blatant misinformation made up by Lisa Holst who was criticizing gullible people believing anything
5Gjn TIL of Aoshima, a Japanese island where cats outnumber humans 6 to 1.