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TIL of an EPA employee who told his bosses that he worked for the CIA and didn't go to work for most of 10 years.

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6gBw TIL that the heads of suicide bombers are usually left intact, even though the rest of the body is blown to bits.
MeXQK Today I learned most of the world’s oxygen comes from the ocean and not from trees.
R7Nn4 TIL that in World War II, the Allies suspected the Nazis of using the Leaning Tower of Pisa as an observation post. A US Army General was sent to evaluate the scenario but was so impressed by the beauty of the campanile that he refused to order an artillery strike in order to preserve it.
4XRJ5 TIL that the US Army never gave the Native Americans smallpox infested blankets as a tool of genocide. The US did inflict countless atrocities against the natives, but the smallpox blankets story was fabricated by a University of Colorado professor.
neyjB TIL that the constellation Orion’s Belt is actually part of a bigger constellation called Orion.