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TIL of Unit 684 an expendable South Korean black-ops team of 31 convicted criminals whose mission was to kill North Korea’s premier Kim Il-sung

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pY5mA TIL Beaver anal secretions have been used as a vanilla flavor substitute for certain foods and luxury cosmetics.
VBwoD TIL in 1898, dissatisfied with the city leadership of Wilmington North Carolina, Alfred Moore Waddell led a mob to overthrow it and took over as mayor for eight years. He faced little opposition from the US government and no real consequences.
v14Ax TIL Buddy, the golden retriever that played the original Air Bud, is the same dog that played Comet on Full House. In 1989, his owner originally found him as a stray in the Sierra Nevada. He took Buddy in and trained him to play basketball, baseball, football, soccer, and hockey.
PY6Z TIL that some people, due to a rare genetic mutation, only need to sleep for about four hours a night. Margaret Thatcher, James Franco, and Martha Stewart have all been suspected to have this condition.
JpnB TIL that scientists created a system that can reconstruct what you have seen by scanning your brain