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TIL that the CIA spent $20 million to train cats as spies and on the very first mission the first cat spy was hit and killed by a taxi almost immediately.

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QkQe TIL that about 400,000 pounds of man-made material has been left on the moon, including “96 bags of urine, feces, and vomit”.
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R54O8 TIL that football legend Pele was banned from playing for a non-brazilian team by a presidential law declaring him a 'national treasure'
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