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TIL that American Troops were sent to fight in the Russian Revolution or 1918.

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xLgB TIL Nicolas Cage won China’s ‘Best Global Actor’ award in 2013
R7kb7 TIL the mafia in New York City stole around $1billion dollars a year in the 1980s simply by evading gasoline taxes through a scheme where they created fake gas stations
Vjek TIL that Al Queda’s strategy specifically involved using terrorism to provoke the West into long wars in numerous places that would lead to its financial collapse.
kO9x1 TIL Isaac Hayes, one of the only famous black Scientologists, approached Scientology leader David Miscavige and asked why the religion wasn’t doing more to court black Americans. So Miscavige reached out to the Nation of Islam, and by 2010, they began promoting the benefits of Scientology.
G8vQ TIL: scientists discovered that Bowhead whales live past 200 years when they found fragments of a 200 year harpoon lodged in a living one