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TIL The CIA Secretly Funded Abstract Artists and Had a Secret Abstract Art Collection

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8arWb TIL in North Carolina there is a small sign marking the location where a B-52 broke apart midair in 1961, dropping two nuclear weapons below. One was set to ARM.
6EmBw TIL people used to dress up in costumes for Thanksgiving like they do now for Halloween.
Lo0p TIL that during the Han Dynasty, plague victims were catapulted into cites under siege as a form of biological warfare.
78ox TIL that religious practices were officially banned in Albania between 1967 to 1991. This made Albania the first and only constitutionally atheist state to ever exist.
e0ZVk TIL A Filipino politician Reynaldo Dagsa, photographed his own assassination, 2011