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TIL: Two psychologists were paid $81 million by the CIA to advise on and help implement torture.

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wLpp8 TIL of the Dyatlov Pass Incident, where 9 students were found dead under strange circumstances that couldn't be explained. One had no eyes, almost none had their shoes on, and were severely under-dressed.
l7BB1 TIL luxury British lingerie company Rigby & Peller lost its royal warrant of appointment after June Keaton, the company's owner and former bra-fitter to the Queen, referenced her trips to Buckingham Palace in her autobiography "Storm in a D-Cup".
Ma60 TIL Italian Emma Morano, who is 117 years old, is the last living person born in the 1800s (Nov. 29, 1899)
oBYR7 TIL that Richard Nixon's daughter, Julie, ended up marrying Dwight D. Eisenhower's grandson, David, in 1968. They had 3 children and are still married to this day.
9YdD TIL that the raw flour in cookie dough, and not the raw egg, was responsible for an e. coli outbreak that led to 35 people being hospitalized