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TIL Anderson Cooper was a college intern at the CIA

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OoDde TIL a Great Pyrenees dog named Duke was the mayor of Cormorant Village, Minnesota, for four years, having been elected four terms in a row. He retired in 2018 due to falling health. He passed away in early 2019 at the age of 13.
4X8Oo TIL of the Solway Firth Spaceman, a mysterious figure seen in a 1964 photograph that no one knew the identity of for five decades. The photographer was visited by two men in black not long after, fueling the fire of UFOlogists who believed it to be a conspiracy
njG TIL Charles Barkley was about to run for Governor of Alabama as a Republican until “they lost their minds.”
yWyJ TIL Rudolf Höss, the commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp, during his trial when accused of murdering three and a half million people, replied, “No. Only two and one half million—the rest died from disease and starvation.”
e0Peg TIL "Father Time"; the Roman god, Saturn; the Greek god, Cronos; and the Grim Reaper are different versions of the same mythic character.