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TIL there's a declassified CIA Simple Sabotage Field Manual

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epDk TIL that a moment is 90 seconds.
QJvwE TIL that fruit flies were the first animal launched into space because they are genetically similar to humans and the space station has an aquarium for observation of fish in space.
awp7y TIL 1 sperm has 37.5MB of DNA information in it. That means a normal ejaculation represents a data transfer of 1587GB in about 3 seconds
16bo4 TIL that defection from North Korea have plummeted from 2,803 to less then 99 in 2023.
N7BlP TIL of Fritz Suhren, a concentration camp commandant. When the allies were close, he took Odette Sansom, an inmate whom he believed to be Churchill's niece, and drove with her to the US base, hoping it would save him. She was in fact a British spy under a false name. He was hanged in 1950