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TIL that the CIA hired a magician to train agents in sleight of hand techniques for use in their mickey-slipping LSD experiments…

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5wQB TIL on August 16, 1942, a military blimp left San Francisco bay on a routine submarine-spotting mission. A few hours later, the airship wandered back over land and crashed with nobody aboard. Life rafts and other gear had not been touched. To this day the two man crew has never been found.
wgnP TIL that early explorers described kangaroos as creatures that had heads like deer, stood upright like men, and hopped like frogs. No one believed them.
1aylP TIL that Pope Gregory XIV made gambling on papal elections punishable by excommunication.
1a4v8 TIL hackers can steal data from your computer even if it’s not connected to the internet by causing the hard disk drive activity indicator LED to blink rapidly.
P17LL TIL that years before the upcoming Gladiator 2, Russell Crowe commissioned a script for a sequel in which Maximus goes to the afterlife and gets resurrected, appearing in World War 2 and the Vietnam War, and ending with him in a suit and tie at the modern-day Pentagon.