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TIL in 2012, a sanctioned penetration test used an attractive woman’s picture on facebook and LinkedIn to compromise the CIA at the highest levels.

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LVMp TIL when Martin Luther King Jr. won the Nobel Peace Prize Atlanta threw him a celebration party that almost had to be cancelled due to opposition. Coca-Cola’s CEO threatened to take the company out of Atlanta out of embarrassment that the city’s people wouldn’t honor their Nobel Prize winner.
X0J9X TIL: three different cardiac surgeons (Norwood, Glenn, Fontan) independently came up with surgeries to fix babies’ congenital heart defects. Nowadays the surgeries are done one after another as part of one mega treatment (“staged” reconstruction)
lN91 TIL that, in the early 1960s, the CIA coined the term ‘Plausible Deniability’ to describe the withholding of information from senior officials in order to protect them from repercussions in the event that illegal or unpopular activities by the CIA became public knowledge.
9V8p TIL The FBI drugged and assassinated Fred Hampton face down in his sleep.
jm9E TIL of the Aka tribe in Central Africa where male and female roles are virtually interchangeable. Women hunt, men mind the children,and vice versa. Men spend 47 percent of their time within reach of their kids, more than any other society, and even let them suckle.