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TIL that Texas has an embassy in Washington DC.

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neEmb TIL that Victor Marchetti's 1974 work "The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence" was the first book subject to pre-publication censorship by the US government. The book was published with gaps showing where text had been excised and bold text where CIA censorship demands had been overturned by a court.
69NMX TIL that Caesar used the knowledge that the calendar was out of alignment and that it was Autumn instead of Winter and thus safe to sail to beat a blockade and win the civil war against Pompey
ZG9v TIL that the Galileo probe experienced 230g of decceleration when entering Jupiters atmosphere, equivalent to a change in velocity from 5000mph to 0 in one second.
jNMxN TIL: China creates so much synthetic diamonds that are identical to real diamonds that prices of diamonds are being driven down and De Beers has created a university to study how to identify "natural" and "man made" diamonds because no experts can tell the difference.
rR6xe TIL that Danny DeVito and Rhea Perlman are separated but no divorced due to how close they still are