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TIL If you have ever worked with the CIA in any capacity you are permanently precluded from working with the Peace Corps

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vEWj TIL AOL still makes about $600 million a year from dial-up Internet subscriptions.
x6L9b TIL there are only 25 active blimps on the entire planet.
P14YE TIL that male peacocks make fake mating sounds to make him seem more popular so females will mate with him.
ANa07 TIL that following the 9/11 attacks, shopping channel QVC replaced their live broadcast with a message telling people to watch the news instead
a8Npo TIL the Lenni Lenape, the Native American tribe indigenous to the area between CT & DE, played a sport where 2 teams: 1 all men & 1 all women try to get a ball into the other's goal. The women can carry/pass/kick the ball & tackle. The men couldn't tackle & could only kick/dislodge the ball.