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TIL that the CIA parachuted hundreds of people into North Korea throughout the 1950s to start resistance networks and, despite never hearing from most of them again, continued to parachute more in until an inquiry in the 1970s questioned the morality of such an initiative.
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TIL That Lewis Caroll was a conservative mathematician, and wrote many scenes in Alice in Wonderland with the intention of being satiracal representations of other mathematicians at the time
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TIL Spallanzani, an Italian Catholic priest and biologist was one of the first to disprove abiogenesis (life from non-life) by using tight fitted pants on male frogs which lead to failure to copulate and thus failure to reproduce.