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TIL about Lake Natron: a Tanzanian salt lake that can turn animals into stone

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m1X9M TIL about Operation Artichoke. A 1954 CIA plan to make an unwitting individual attempt to assassinate American public official, and then be taken into custody and “disposed of”.
Z8dGv TIL The Jewel Royale is the most expensive chess see ever made. costing $1.3 million it features gold platinum and precious stones.
0dQWN TIL about the Chandelle, an advanced flight maneuver where an aircraft makes a climbing turn at a maximum performance level to gain the most altitude while reversing direction, used in both civilian aviation for proficiency and in military training for evasion.
JYDlB TIL About Jazz Funerals, a New Orleans tradition in which a person is “buried with music” by a brass band and other musicians in a procession to their grave. “Second Liners”- people who dance to the music in all styles, accompany the music players to bury the person with respect.
9wyo7 TIL Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple, was so good at Tetris that Nintendo Power magazine eventually stopped publishing his high scores because he dominated the leaderboard.