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TIL that Divine Brown known for her tryst with Hugh Grant in 1995 reportedly made $1.6 M due to the publicity, sent her kids to private school, bought a home in Beverly Hills and changed her life around.

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16QpX 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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