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TIL CIA spent $15 million to train a cat to spy on Russians. Just after it was released on its mission, the cat was killed by a car.

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OGZkL TIL That approximately 460,000 children go missing every year in the USA.
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Rnmw TIL there is a font specifically designed to help those with dyslexia, which “weighs down” letters to prevent them from moving around.
m1lpv TIL that the first person to decipher an extinct language was the French scholar Jean-Jacques Barthélemy, who deciphered the Palmyrene alphabet in 1754. He managed to do so literally overnight by studying bilingual inscriptions.
JoVQ TIL Neil Armstrong threatened legal action against his barber, for selling his hair to a collector for $3,000.