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TIL about the all-in-one monster Soviet Antarctic ATVs

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wLYm7 TIL in the '70s the Israeli government considered the color TVs a luxury that would increase social gaps. A "Color Killer" module had to be installed in imported TVs to prevent the appearance of color. Soon after, an Anti-"Color Killer" device was offered and purchased by 90% of color TV customers.
D1m6v TIL Steve Wozniak has a binder of $2 bills and pulls them out as suspiciously as possible when making small purchases. One time the Secret Service was called and Steve gave them an ID saying he was a member of the “Department of Defiance”
YvPW TIL there is a volcano in Arizona that bears the name “Shit Pot Crater,” so named because it resembles a “toilet catastrophe.”
P19JL TIL in 1990 the CIA imported over 1 ton of cocaine and sold it within the US, supposedly to gain the trust of a Colombian cartel. They obtained the cocaine from the Venezuelan ANTI narcotics chief.
LQeaV TIL about the fundamental attribution error. A theory in social psychology which posits that people tend to overattribute the behaviour of others to their personality and underattribute them to situation or context