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TIL When Five Guys opened up, they received an order from the Pentagon. When Five Guys asked what time they were going to pick up the order, an admiral got on the phone and told them “everyone delivers to the Pentagon.” Five Guys then put up a banner that read “ABSOLUTELY NO DELIVERY.”

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XENar TIL of Project Azorian, a secret CIA project in the 1970s fronted by eccentric businessman Howard Hughes. The CIA spent the equivalent of $4 billion to make a ship that could recover a sunken Soviet nuclear submarine. It nearly succeeded, but 2/3rds of the vessel broke away during retrieval.
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