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TIL that the Pentagon and the CIA have exercised direct editorial control over more than 2,500 films and television shows

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b9R8a TIL The hit song 'Ameno' was entirely written and sung in Dog Latin.
8a5B4 TIL that sperm don't actually swim, they corkscrew!
eAGn TIL There is an Israeli policy document prepared in 1996 advocating an aggressive new policy including the removal of Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq, and the containment of Syria by engaging in proxy warfare and highlighting their possession of “weapons of mass destruction”.
9mjD TIL a dog caused 3 deaths when it fell out of a window. It landed on a woman, killing her, shocked onlookers were hit by a bus and one died, and a man who saw it all had a fatal heart attack.
dD4YB TIL at least 58 people have been killed by violent responses to Salman Rushdie's novel The Satanic Verses.