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TIL that the word ‘infant’ comes from the Latin word 'infans’, meaning “unable to speak” or “speechless”

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8aQXb TIL in 1974 the CIA mounted a top-secret research project, "Azorian", to recover a Soviet nuclear missile submarine that had sunk in 1968 using a grapple secretly lowered from underwater, ultimately recovering about a 3rd of the submarine and two nuclear missiles from a depth of over three miles.
AD86w TIL Princeton's Roger Nelson PhD proposes that human consciousness affects the variance in randomness of hardware-based random number generators. Since 1998, Nelson's Global Consciousness Project uses a global network to create random data over time, which is then associated with real-world events.
5YKDr TIL the US military tried to develop a "gay bomb" that would use an aphrodisiac chemical to cause enemy troops to have strong homosexual feelings, which was supposed to damage morale and discipline in a non-lethal way.
aW1N TIL that while shooting Pirates XXX on a ship in FL, the ship owner was told the movie was a “Disney film for families.”
4yV6 TIL: Elon Musk admitted that the Tesla Model E name — and the idea of spelling out S.E.X. — originally came from a friend who was joking with him about future Tesla names.