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TIL Declassified Documents Prove the US used “Cloud Seeding” to extend the monsoon season during the Vietnam War

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A4Eg TIL That the research behind “Type A and Type B personality traits” was secretly funded by cigarette companies in the 1960’s to suggest that smoking cigarettes didn’t cause cancer and heart disease, being Type A did.
yvgJ TIL Speedy Gonzales was banned by Cartoon Network for being an offensive stereotype, only to be returned after mass protest by the hispanic-american community.
mxDky TIL that a man in the UK grew tired of cold callers to his phone line, so he set up his own phone line as a premium rate number. When cold callers phoned him, he would be making money by keeping them talking.
p8OrG TIL the last lynching in Alabama wasn't 100+ years ago. It was the lynching of Michael Donald in 1981!
lgdV TIL that in 1945 Soviet school children presented a US Ambassador with a carved US Seal as a gesture of friendship. It hung in his office for 7 years before discovering it contained a listening device.