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TIL that starting in the late 1970s the US Army spent $20 million paying psychics to generate military intelligence. The program was terminated in 1995 after producing no useful information.

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b9Ve0 TIL about ultramarathoner Jasmin Paris, who won the 268-mile Spine race in 2019 in a record setting 83 hours 12 minutes, while stopping at aid stations to express milk for her daughter.
PY60n TIL the more content the wife is with the long-term union, the happier the husband is with his life no matter how he feels about their nuptials.
N1Oe TIL that when a Soviet research ship went to check on sunken Soviet submarine K-219 in 1988, it found several of the submarine’s missile silo hatches had been forced open, and the missiles, along with their nuclear warheads, were gone.
wLkPM TIL that when a whale dies in cold waters, its body falls to the ocean floor creating its own ecosystem which can last for decades.
Wk6WY TIL a small town in east Texas with only 24,000 people saw 25% of all patent law suits in America. Patent trolls used to try all their cases there before the supreme court disallowed it.