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TIL that the movie (The Men Who Stare at Goats) was loosely based on an investigation into attempts by the U.S. military to employ psychic powers as a weapon.

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W7wnB TIL India has "marriage brokers" to match up familiries. The industry is worth more than 250 billion rupees, ~= 3 billion USD
P1MML TIL that a Florida man conducted a hoax for ten years, starting in 1948, that a 4.5m-high penguin was visiting Clearwater Beach. A biologist suggested that the tracks were genuine on account of how they matched animal behaviour. The hoax was revealed in 1988.
KOEXG TIL some of the biggest flying birds ever to exist may have lived alongside humans in the Americas, and may have even influenced Native myths.
XEdgk TIL that in 1984 a group of paleontologists discovered a 50,000-Year-Old Bison frozen in the permafrost in Alaska and consumed part of its neck meat. They described it as tasting like mud but smelling like beef and mushrooms.
N7gPe TIL the drug quaalude was named after a combination of the phrase “quiet interlude”