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TIL of les UX an underground organization that improves hidden corners of Paris. Their work includes restoring the Pantheon clock, building a cinema – complete with a bar and a restaurant – in a section of the Paris Catacombs and restoring medieval crypts. The group's membership is largely secret.

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JYnom TIL of Jeff Hall, a white nationalist indoctrinating his 12 year old son in his beliefs & teaching him to shoot at the border. One day, his son retrieved his gun & shot him in the head.
R75b4 TIL that the episode 'Paedogeddon!' of satirical series Brass Eye received nearly 3000 complaints. Some politicians condemned the episode, but later admitted never seeing it, including former Home Secretary David Blunkett who said he hadn't seen it because he was 'on holiday at the time and blind'.
EgvMX TIL in 1995, a military factory exploded near Rio Tercero city in Argentina, sending a shell storm that killed seven people and injured over 300, and destroyed parts of the city. It was discovered that the explosion was deliberate to hide evidence of smuggling weapons to other countries.
1N6W TIL a few weeks after the Korean War ended, a North Korean pilot defected with a MiG-15 to South Korea and was paid $100k as a reward for being the first pilot to defect with an operational aircraft
69brl TIL about the rare phenomenon of an "en caul" birth, where a baby is born still enclosed within the amniotic sac. Unlike typical births, where the sac breaks before delivery, in these cases, the baby emerges in a transparent bubble-like membrane. This occurrence is less than 1 in 80,000 births