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TIL that NASA have their own special agents who are armed, have arrest authority and can execute search warrants

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9w01p TIL that Leni Riefenstahl had an affair with American Olympic decathlate Glenn Morris during the filming of "Olympia," Riefenstahl's documentary about the 1936 Berlin games
nRGr TIL horses kept in stables suffer from insomnia and stay awake up to 85% of the night. This leads to other issues like sleep rocking, sleepwalking, and night terrors.
e0Pgb TIL that the French writer and philosopher Georges Bataille founded a secret society called Acéphale to explore ritualism and human sacrifice, but apparently everyone volunteered to be the sacrificial victim and no one wanted to be the executioner so no sacrifice was ever carried out.
R5dE7 TIL that Kit Kat bars are made up of imperfect rejected Kit Kats bars that are mashed up into a paste that's used to fill the wafers.
wL5P1 TIL that in C. S. Lewis' Narnia the god Bacchus would sometimes visit, turning all the streams to wine and everyone in the forest would have a drunken party for weeks.