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TIL Julian Lennon had to buy the letters he wrote to his father (John Lennon) at an auction, because Yoko Ono wouldn’t give them to him.

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XE4g6 TIL in 1982, the CIA successfully tricked the Soviet Union into stealing sabotaged software that oversaw pump valves in gas lines. The CIA used it to close off a massive Soviet gas line, leading to a massive pressure build up and “the most monumental non-nuclear explosion ever seen from space.”
9wQlr TIL, Contrary to what I was taught in school - The Great Wall of China is NOT visible from the moon or space in general. At best, it is visible from the low orbits under very favorable weather conditions. Some other earthly structures, e.g., desert roads, have much higher visibility from space.
yN1a TIL Louis CK dropped his management agency because they asked Joe Rogan to apologize to Carlos Mencia for outing him as a joke theif
yDdV TIL there is a theory that cats became domesticated because they adapted to hunting the vermin found around humans in towns and villages. They were tolerated by people and gradually diverged from their wild relatives through natural selection.
grEbA TIL that nuclear tablets are given to some cancer patients to fight/kill cancerous cells