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TIL US Army’s 113th Military Intelligence unit used fake pizza deliveries to spy on reporters and politicians in the 1960s

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x6jpB TIL JERRY SEINFELD is 69 years old!
a8JZN TIL that Daniele Comboni, the founder of the Catholic Priest group, Comboni Missionaries of the Heart of Jesus, was canonized by Pope John Paul II in 2003.
WklpA TIL: Some swiss cheese lacks holes because the milk used to make it is too clean. A Swiss agricultural institute discovered that tiny pieces of hay dust are responsible for the holes.
mOoo TIL In Minnesota, there’s an amusement park where you can pay to shoot military machine guns, or better yet drive a tank. For extra you can crush cars.
N9a6 TIL of Hyonseo Lee, a North Korean defector who spent years helping her family escape to South Korea. When her family was arrested and held near the embassy, Lee could not afford the bribe to free them–a stranger from abroad heard her story and paid it. Lee and her family now live in South Korea.