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TIL about the Judas Goat Technique. Judas goats are captured, sterilised, radio-collared and then re-released to associate with and reveal the location of other feral goats in the area, sparing their own lives in the process.

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nepkG TIL Former Manson Family member Barbara Hoyt, was poisoned by a hamburger with several doses of LSD in it. This was meant to prevent her from testifying in the Tate-LaBianca murder trial. The plan backfired when she survived. After the attempt to silence her, her reticence disappeared.
xV6Rw TIL For many ovens the drawer beneath is meant to keep foods warm, not as storage for baking sheets/pans
JGkl TIL in 2014 Italian and French jets escorted a hijacked plane because the Swiss Air Force only works during office hours.
5YAZB TIL in 1957 a man crashed his military plane in the Sierra Nevadas and was lost. He emerged 54 days later and had a tale of survival, but with no wreckage found, people thought he sold the plane to the Russians. His wife left him, he was cast out. Years after he died, the wreckage was finally found.
VBVpp TIL: That Budd Dwyer, a former Treasurer of Pennsylvania, ended his life by committing suicide on live television. Audio of his death was later sampled by Marilyn Manson for his debut single Get Your Gunn.