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TIL that a $350m drillship built in the early ‘70s by US billionaire, Howard Hughes, to collect 'mineral riches’ from the ocean floor was actually a cover for the CIA to be used to lift a lost Soviet submarine, loaded with nuclear missiles, up from the floor of the Pacific Ocean, 3 miles deep

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P8dG TIL contemporary Germans referred to Hitler’s style of mustache as a “snot brake.”
9Wlp TIL: It took 200,000 years to bring 1st billion people on Earth, 100 more years to bring 2nd billion and now we add 1 billion people to this planet every 12 years.
PYaxg TIL of the Greater Fool Theory, which states that the price of an object is determined not by its intrinsic value, but rather by irrational beliefs and expectations of market participants.
6E0Y8 TIL that some people call an end of a loaf of bread a heel.
Zpg4B TIL: The Sumatran Striped Rabbit was discovered in 1880, not seen again until 1972, then not sighted again until 1998. One was rescued in 2021 after conservationists saw a post on Facebook about one caught by a farmer