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TIL that in 1981, president Ronald Reagan appointed Donald Regan as his treasury secretary.

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dDpdB TIL that after rescuing piglets from a barn blaze, firefighters received sausages made from those piglets as a thank-you from the farmer six months later.
1oyd TIL the longest ever recorded sniper kill was shot from 2,475 meters or 1.54 miles away by British CoH Craig Harrison. The bullet took over 6 seconds to reach its target and fell about 400 feet.
pYN9G TIL mole Robert Hanssen was caught because a tape the FBI paid $7 million in part to get contained a quote from a Patton speech, "the purple-pissing Japanese", and the agent listening to the tape remembered Hanssen using the same phrase once.
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