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TIL that key members of the Bush admin leaked the name of a covert CIA operative because her husband revealed that Bush manipulated evidence to justify the invasion of Iraq.

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R7rl4 TIL inoculation was introduced to America in 1706 by an West African slave named Onesimus, who taught his owner Cotton Mather how his parents inoculated him as a child. in 1721, Mather used this method to successfully combat a smallpox outbreak in Boston.
gMA6y TIL 7-Eleven owns the trademark to the word 'Brainfreeze'. The medical term is a cold-stimulus headache.
xV1v7 TIL that the reason why Plankton is eating holographic meatloaf for dinner because holograms are projections of light, and Plankton gain energy through photosynthesis
V1lG TIL that the fastest supercomputer in 1976 ran at 80MHz and cost $80 million. Compare that to the cheapest (via http://bit.ly/14FE8Qf
aN99 TIL there is a man trying to get a new letter in to the alphabet to replace the word “the”.