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TIL: You can actually die from a broken heart

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jNDvR TIL about ghost shift counterfeiting. Foreign contractors make more products than they're supposed to, and sell the rest as exact 'counterfeits' of the real products
RKn1 TIL during the Cold War the CIA spent $3.8B to construct a ship with a 16,000ft underwater claw arm in order to retrieve a sunken Soviet nuclear submarine.
0wkmv TIL Philip Seymour Hoffman was once starstruck when he found jazz legend Miles Davis swimming in the pool where he was a lifeguard. Hoffman played it cool and pretended he didn't know who the mysterious man was and his indifference earned him an afternoon chat about everything except music.
QJGGL TIL In Canada there is a prisoner known as "the Unknown Person" who has been imprisoned since 2013 because he refuses to identify himself.
pKJb TIL Detroit once had a tourist attraction more popular than the Statue of Liberty. The Ford Rotunda was built for the 1934 World’s Fair and was the fifth most visited site in the U.S. before burning to the ground in 1962