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TIL Osama Bin Laden was actually killed by the CIA, and he had a significant stash of Opium near by. In preparation for the raid, the Seal team was legally signed over to CIA control for legal protection, and all records are shielded from the Freedom of Information Act.

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l7jv1 TIL Benjamin Franklin invented an instrument called the Glass Armonica. A musician powered a foot pedal to rotate 36 concentric glass bowls and produced notes by putting wet fingers to the spinning glass.
0wlZN TIL David Gilmour's 2016 performance at the Pompeii amphitheater was the first live performance with an audience since 79 A.D.
l7n41 TIL we don't know where Point Nemo is. The coordinates of the most remote spot in the ocean have only been calculated using published coastline datasets. No one has ever taken GPS readings at the three closest land points to Point Nemo which is what it would take to calculate it precisely.
konE TIL that in the 50’s and 60’s the CIA would hire prostitutes to bring back unsuspecting men to safe houses where they would be drugged with large doses of LSD and observed from behind a one-way mirror. It was dubbed Operation Midnight Climax.
Maem TIL Danny Elfman came up with the theme to ‘Batman’ on a flight from London but since he couldn’t write music he kept running to the bathroom to record himself on a tape recorder whenever he had a new idea, causing the flight attendants to think he was a junkie