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TIL John Stockwell estimated over 6 million people had been killed due to CIA covert ops back in 1987.

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J1YQV TiL : in 2010 underground art/protest group Voina ("war") drew a towering penis graffiti in 23 seconds on a bascule bridge in St. Petersburg. When raised, it was directly opposite the FSB (former KGB) headquarters. [NSFW]
neQE9 TIL carrying the bride over the threshold is an ancient Roman custom dating back to the founders of Rome and the "Rape of the Sabine Women" in which the men of Rome abducted 'brides' from Sabine.
OBm6 TIL Hellbanning: The practice of making a user’s [troll’s] contributions invisible to the rest of an online community, while the user still perceives they are participating normally – i.e. blanket enforcement of “don’t feed the trolls”.
bYp7 TIL There Have Only Been 3 Perfect Games in Putt-Putt Professional Golfers Association (PPPGA) History
loMAB TIL That in 1614, historian Chimalpahin of Aztec decent, recorded that Spanish soldier Vizcaíno was stabbed by a Japanese Samurai in Acapulco, Mexico