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TIL A group of students in Iran spent years reconstructing thousands of shredded CIA secret documents, and subsequently published them

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QNy09 TIL that the woman who sings the iconic "Give it to me baby!" from The Offspring song "Pretty Fly (For A White Guy) went on to voice Asajj Ventress from Star Wars: The Clone Wars
PYN0O [TIL] about the GIANT murder hornet that has recently been seen in the US and UK. It has a 75mm (2.95 in) wingspan and a 6mm (0.25 in) stinger. They hunt in packs and can kill humans,. if you're unlucky, their stings cause necrosis (your flesh dies while you are alive.).
oRpbL TIL that FOX’s In Living Color aired a live episode during the 1992 Super Bowl halftime, pulling over 20 million viewers and forcing the NFL to rethink halftime shows, leading to Michael Jackson’s iconic 1993 performance.
4gJa TIL almost all workers in the UK are legally entitled to 5.6 weeks paid holiday per year.
xae0 TIL that tripping on LSD has aided at least 2 Nobel prize winners in their scientific discoveries.