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TIL the FBI purposely facilitated a lot of the ‘terrorists’ they seemingly foiled

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nWPvo TIL that giant “Terror Birds” (dinosaur descendants) ruled as apex predators in South America until about 1.8 million years ago. They ruled for nearly 60 million years after the dinosaurs, until the Great American Interchange.
yldX TIL While shooting the blues brothers movie, They had a budget for cocaine.
R77d4 TIL that on September 16, 1920, a bomb exploded on Wall Street outside the NYSE building, killing 33 people and injuring more than 400. The perpetrators were never found.
8a4wa TIL about Mimizuka, a monument in Kyoto dedicated to the sliced off noses of killed Korean soldiers and civilians taken as war trophies.
WP6o TIL that the USS Acadia was the first US Navy ship to house a wartime mixed sex crew and was unofficially nicknamed ‘The Love Boat’ after 10% of all women on board became pregnant during deployment