› added 8 years ago

107

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

Read more wikipedia.org

via ift.tt

GYODJ TIL before Robert Palmer became famous for songs like Simply Irresistible and Addicted to Love, he lived in Bahamas and sang reggae
gva4 TIL the last 24 remaining members of a species of giant stick insect were found under a bush on a remote spike of rock off australia
WkAKo TIL: Up until 1972, tennis balls used to be black and white, and were changed to their neon color today because people had trouble seeing them on television.
9YD4B TIL Quine is a self-reproducing program, where it has no input, but its output is an exact copy of itself.
yVAmX TIL in WWI the Secret Service discovered that semen was found to be useful as invisible ink with the motto "Every man his own stylo." It was eventually discontinued because of the smell.