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TIL In the Vietnam War, the US military produced recordings of ghostly voices and eerie sounds to play to the Vietcong, who believed that if a body wasn’t buried, the person’s soul would wander the Earth forever

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OGedg TIL in 1967, a documentary filmmaker was shot and killed while filming a miner in Kentucky by the owner of the rented house where the miner lived. The killing was motivated by the growing resentment of journalists who descended upon Appalachia to document living conditions during the War on Poverty.
lpoK TIL North Korea’s highest defense minister was executed by Anti Aircraft fire for falling asleep during an event attended by kim jong un
vPvPr TIL there are no living direct descendants of Julius Caesar. The closest descendants are from Caesar's great nephew Augustus, who had a daughter, Julia that bore 6 children.
oBvLo TIL there is a "Robot Scientist" named Adam - in 2009, "Adam became the first machine in history to have discovered new scientific knowledge independently of its human creators"
P107O TIL Disneyland has a feral cat colony on the payroll.