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TIL: There's a New Type of Glasses That Autofocus Automatically Based on What You're Looking At

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oddo TIL the Pentagon plans to seed the ocean floor with payloads of sensors, drones and other devices, which will lay dormant waiting to be called into action to aid U.S. forces. This program is called “Upward Falling Payload.”
p8WYA TIL that people & organizations have spent millions of dollars to build an electrical grid in Kenya to have their efforts thwarted by individuals who steal PCP contaminated oil to sell to road side vendors to fry food with.
8axpa TIL that Ed Helms' missing tooth in "The Hangover" was not created with prosthetics or visual effects. Helms never had that tooth grow and received a dental implant as a teenager, and it was removed during filming.
p8k8Q TIL MF DOOM’s tour doubled as a food drive where he encouraged audience members to bring cans of food, leading to over 1000 pounds of food donated to various shelters.
DQmlp TIL of Operation Mount Hope III, where the U.S. 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment captured an abandoned Soviet Mi-25 Hind D attack helicopter from an abandoned airfield in Libya by hoisting it out with a Chinook and flying 1,700km both ways. They were completely undetected in their mission.