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TIL about "Wicked Problems" which is a term in social policy that It refers to an idea or problem that cannot be fixed, where there is no single solution to the problem; and "wicked" denotes resistance to resolution, rather than evil.

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BrAMW TIL that there is only one instance in military history of a submarine sinking another while both were submerged: HMS Venturer sank a German U-Boat in 1945 by working out a firing solution on paper after pursuing it undetected for several hours
yrbV TIL Arnold Schwarzenegger refused to star in Terminator 3 because James Cameron wasn’t directing. Cameron told Schwarzenegger to just do the film and ask for “nothing less than $30 million.”
xWv0 TIL a hot dog stand in the center of the Pentagon was rumored to be the target of a Soviet missile strike during the Cold War because the Soviets reportedly thought it was the Pentagon’s most top secret meeting room, and the entire Pentagon was a large fortress built around the hot dog stand.
Lkkm9 TIL in January 2011, a homemade catapult was discovered that was used to smuggle marijuana into the United States from Mexico. The machine was found 20 feet from the border fence with 4.4 pounds (2.0 kg) bales of cannabis ready to launch.
GWE7 TIL that in 1986, a woman who sought psychiatric help discovered memories of being in a satanic cult where she was forcibly raped, had to eat babies and as a consequence developed 120 different personalities to cope. The memories were later found to be false and the therapist was sued.