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TIL The black doomsday ship in the James Bond film, Tomorrow Never Dies (1997,) was an actual piece of top-secret hardware built for DARPA and the US Navy by Lockheed. Sea Shadow (IX-529)

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N7wZM TIL of John Corcoran, a teacher who taught for 17 years while being illiterate. He struggled in the 6th grade and never learned to read or write, and cheated his way through college. At the age of 47, he finally learned when he was inspired by Barbara Bush advocating for adult literacy.
lom6G TIL: That 1985's Live Aid helped fund the corrupt Ethiopian government and was spent on guns, not to relieve famine.
a7do TIL in 2002, Christopher Dorner and a classmate found a bag containing $8,000 that belonged to the ‘Enid Korean Church of Grace’. They turned it into the police. When asked their motive, Dorner said “It’s an integrity thing. My mother taught me honesty and integrity.”
vlm4 TIL Greenland has a university, with 14 staff and 150 students. It is so small because the Government pays for students to have a free university education anywhere in Europe or North America.
D1L1e TIL why most people aren't happy with their way of living