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TIL that Iran used jamming of control signals and spoofing of GPS to capture an American drone in 2011. Iran have since reverse engineered the drone to construct their own.

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D1bkj TIL that author Lee Child was inspired to name his character Jack Reacher after a shopping trip. An old lady asked for his help in reaching for a can of pears; Child's wife, when seeing this, commented that if his writing career didn't work out, he could 'always get a job as a reacher'.
aZnM TIL that search and rescue dogs searching for survivors after 9/11 would experienced depression-like symptoms because they couldn’t find survivors, only bodies.
Zo5R TIL A cloud typically weighs 1.1 million pounds
oVvA TIL Mitsubishi is buying and freezing one of the worlds most endangered fish, in the hope to sell the commodity when it becomes exstinct.
4kNAa TIL that, on 9/11, all 358 workers of insurance company Marsh McLennan's WTC offices died. Their WTC offices (floors 93 to 100 of the North Tower) were directly by AMERICAN 11, and survivors of the blast became stranded, since the elevators and stairways were destroyed by the impact of the aircraft.