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TIL Lewis and Clark carried an air powered rifle with them, powerful enough to kill a deer and impress Native Americans.

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GYWDg TIL that formed FBI director Louis Freeh once said, “Ask the American public if they want an FBI wiretap and they’ll say, ‘No’. If you ask them do they want a feature on their phone that helps the FBI find their missing child they’ll say, ‘Yes’.”
R7pM6 TIL: The National Institute on Drug Abuse inadvertently led to the discovery of the Endocannabinoid System (ECS) trying to prove the dangers of marijuana. ECS serves a vital purpose for our health and well-being because it regulates key aspects of our biology. It explains why pot works medicinally.
MXaV TIL A RAF pilot fell 18,000 feet without a parachute, only to suffer a sprained leg. His reaction to the fall: lit a cigarette.
DmKV TIL there is a modern day Anti Pope, Pope Gregory XVIII is the head of the Palmarian Catholic Church which broke away from the Roman Catholics in 1978 and claim all popes after Pope Paul VI are illegitimate.
JYMK8 TIL Ian Fleming, creator of James Bond, devised a WWII plan to plant false info about the Allies’ next attack on a dead man, drift him at sea, and hope he’d be found by Nazi sympathizers. Operation Mincemeat worked, turning the tide for the Allies, who stormed Italy while the Nazis defended Greece.