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TIL isoprene gas released by the trees in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia reacts with chemicals in the air to create their characteristic blue haze

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konE TIL that in the 50’s and 60’s the CIA would hire prostitutes to bring back unsuspecting men to safe houses where they would be drugged with large doses of LSD and observed from behind a one-way mirror. It was dubbed Operation Midnight Climax.
j69yn TIL that NASA engineers created a set of beauty products because they thought astronauts might want to wear makeup during their space missions
BrDbL TIL that Oman's crowned prince, Theyazin bin Haitham, is engaged to a women who is his paternal first cousin and his maternal first cousin.
P179w TIL India has the 3rd largest Muslim population, nearly as large (86%) as that of Pakistan, and more than twice the Muslim population of Iran.
XEDvP TIL of the Leatherman, a vagabond who walked an annual 365 mile circuit in Connecticut and New York for over 30 years; he wore handmade leather clothes, slept in caves, and communicated with gestures in broken English, though he was fluent in French. His background, name, and origin are all unknown.