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TIL A U.S. Government Employee Ran a South Central LA Drug Ring in the 1980's; the DOJ Removed this finding from the CIA Inspector General Report before giving it to Congress -- U.S. Congresswoman Maxine Waters & Reporter Gary Webb Found a Secret Agreement that exempted the CIA from reporting Drugs

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XBaD TIL in the song “Misunderstood”, John Petrucci wrote and played the guitar solo, and then reversed it. He then learned how to play this reversed version, and after recording it, reversed it once more. This resulted in a solo like the original but with a unique twist to the way the notes sounded.
oRl07 TIL a woman in China reportedly cut off her husband's penis with a scissors while he slept after she found out he had sent racy emails to another woman. In addition, while he was recovering in the hospital from the surgery that reattached it: she reportedly cut it off again & threw it out the window
p8xkp TIL the most common group of people who switch majors in American universities are people in STEM field majors who decided to quit and do a non-STEM major instead
jpZQ TIL John Lasseter was fired from Disney in 1983 for pushing the studio to explore computer animation production, but went on to become the creative head of Pixar.
oBVLA TIL in 1900s there was a death row inmates baseball team and their executions were dependent on their performance.