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TIL in the 70s, while Watergate was raging, a far more widely affecting scandal was being exposed: COINTELPRO – decades of FBI abuse of power and assassinations against political groups and individuals, incl. Martin Luther King, students, pacifists, women’s rights campaigners and notable Americans.

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7KJO TIL of the “Turnspit Dog” a now extinct dog that was short-legged, long-bodied and bred to run on a wheel that would turn meat over a fire. They were also used as foot warmers in church and Queen Victoria kept retired turnspit dogs as pets.
m1drP Today I learned, as a kid Kirk Hammet from Metallica saw his neighbor fuck his dog
KYvpa TIL in a family with twelve children, six of the boys were diagnosed with schizophrenia and were later found to possess a genetic mutation that is so vital to brain function that it could help researchers understand how schizophrenia works.
548D TIL in 2006, a man threw a mouse into a fire; the mouse fled the fire and ran into the man’s home, setting it ablaze.
P1nOn Today I learned that it rains more during a whole year in Rome (Italy) than in London (UK).