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TIL that the KGB ran a disinformation campaign focused on spreading the rumor that the USA had invented and spread AIDS as part of a biological weapons program

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rR9ae TIL search and rescue dog Trakr, who found the last survivor 27 hours after the 9/11 attacks, was successfully cloned in 2009. The five puppies produced then went on to be trained as search and rescue dogs
VBkwk TIL When General Patrick Cleburne passed St. John's Episcopal Church, he commented that "it would be worth dying to be buried in a place so beautiful." Two days later he was killed in battle, and his body was laid to rest in the churchyard of St. John's Episcopal Church.
Emy7 TIL TGI Fridays banned flair because of the movie Office Space
9Ylx7 TIL blue raspberry flavor is based on a real fruit called Whitebark Raspberry, which bears blue/black fruit.
9w8LX TIL Only 4% off all mamals on earth are wild animals. 96% of mamals are livestock and humans.