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TIL that humanity almost wiped itself out 7000 years ago

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vPyeL TIL that Liza Minelli, daughter of Judy Garland, the actress who played Dorothy in the 1939 MGM film, “Wizard of Oz,” was once married to Jack Haley, Jr., son of Jack Haley, the actor who played the Tin Man in the same film. He was Minnelli’s 2nd husband.
dpB7 TIL that between 1969 and 1972, there were 276 hijacked airplanes (an average of about 1 every 5 days).
64vZ TIL Theodore Kaczynski, also known as the Unabomber, was among twenty-two Harvard students subjected to “horrific experiments” conducted as part of the secret CIA project MKUltra, the same project that produced LSD and whose goal was mind control.
xdlg TIL Airedale Terriers carried messages for soldiers during WWI and were very dedicated in their duties. One named ‘Jack’ ran through half a mile of enemy fire. He made it to headquarters with his jaw broken and one leg badly splintered and died just after delivering his message
R5ZPQ TIL that in 1954, jazz legend Charles Mingus wrote a concise mail-order handbook for toilet training your cat