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TIL that Eli Cohen, an Israeli spy, managed to become one of Syria’s Prime Minister’s best friends. While “touring” the Golan Heights, he expressed concern that the soldiers guarding fortifications are exposed to too much sun and had trees planted, which the IDF used as targeting markers.

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kDYW TIL the band “Twenty One Pilots” got their name from the book “All My Sons” by Arthur Miller. In the book, a man sends out faulty airplane parts and causes the death of 21 pilots in World War II
VB5eQ TIL Hitler greatly admired the US ideology for territorial expansion (Manifest Destiny), and saw its destruction of Native American people and cultures as a template for German expansion (Lebensraum)
VM9KB TIL that deer populations in North America were nearly extinct due to over hunting, but have since rebounded after strict hunting regulations and conservation.
j65oX TIL that Spanish dollars, also known as pieces of eight (of pirate fame), were legal tender in the United States until 1857.
4XJXb TIL the most humane and least painful way to kill a whale is by strapping a bomb to it's head, because everything else would be to slow and painful, as they are so massive.