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TIL the American Terex Corporation supplied Iraq with weapons technology in the 1990s, likely at the direction of the CIA and British Intelligence.

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E1GPP TIL a Georgia teacher who bought a $400 travel insurance policy was rewarded $10,000 because she read the fine print of the contract. After reading to page 7, she saw a “Pays to Read” bit that said the first to email and mention the fine print contest would win 10K.
p85rb TIL that a micromort (from micro- and mortality) is a unit of risk defined as one-in-a-million chance of death.
KO4x4 TIL in the 80’s and 90’s, the LAPD set up a task force to look into the possibility of an active serial killer they dubbed the “Southside Slayer”. In reality, they had 4 or 5 active serial killers.
JpnB TIL that scientists created a system that can reconstruct what you have seen by scanning your brain
x68Vw TIL that there is a pharmaceutical company in Denmark that has a higher market cap than Denmark's entire GDP