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TIL the CIA funded the exhibition of modern art in Europe in the 1940s-60s in order to wage a cultural war on the Soviet Union. Via the Rockefeller Foundation and MOMA, the US government funded abstract expressionist exhibitions believing that they represented a counterpoint to Soviet realism style

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ZpVRD TIL in 1967 a Las Vegas cab driver plotted to kidnap Ted Binion, the son of casino owner and gangster Benny Binion. The cab driver was later found shot to death in the desert before the kidnapping could take place.
M7497 TIL On 28 January 1896, the first person to be convicted of speeding is believed to be Walter Arnold of East Peckham, Kent, UK, who was fined 1 shilling plus costs for speeding at 8 mph (13 km/h).
x6eo0 TIL that Franz Jägerstätter was declared a martyr and beatified by the Catholic Church in 2007 after he was executed by the Nazis for being a Conscientious objector.
eppQD TIL that the first version of rayon was so inflammable that it got nicknamed "mother-in-law silk."
VQnZ TIL South Africa has one of the largest impact craters on Earth. It is called the Vredefort Dome and is about 160 km in diameter.