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TIL that General Patton had a years long affair with his niece starting when she was 17 and continuing on through WWII

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P155Z TIL of the Galileo Spacecraft, which deployed a probe to penetrate Jupiter's atmosphere. The probe was going over 106,000 mph when it reached Jupiter, fast enough to travel from LA to NYC in 90 seconds. The probe transmitted data from within Jupiter for about an hour before pressure crushed it.
vAGL TIL that yawning and stretching at the same time is called pandiculating.
yQpv8 TIL of Operation Monopoly, which was a covert plan by the FBI to build a secret tunnel underneath the Soviet Embassy in Washington, D.C. to gather secret intelligence. It was largely a technical failure and was compromised by FBI double agent Robert Hanssen to the Soviets.
jOER TIL that in 1992, a man fell to his death at the Grand Canyon while failing to pretend to fall off the railing
d8nEr TIL about Derek Bentley, who was hanged on 28 January 1953 for a murder he did not commit.