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TIL Anderson Cooper spent two summers as an intern at the CIA

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NXpnQ TIL that Bose is majority owned by MIT
j6wEn TIL The billionaire Daniel K. Ludwig created the Jari Project, a 4 million acres paper pulp farm/factory/planned community in Brazil in 1967. By 1981 Ludwig divested himself of the expensive failing project. The Jari Project was just down stream from Henry Ford's failed Fordlandia rubber farm.
agKZ TIL that an English POW in WWI was granted permission to visit his dying mother and voluntarily returned a week later.
dj8B TIL the only active ship in the US Navy that has sunk an enemy ship is the USS Constitution built in 1797
Bg0GK TIL that during the Battle of Isandlwana, a full solar eclipse darkened the battle field, which helped to motivate the vast numbers of native Zulus defenders. The battle ended with the British Army experiencing its worst defeat against an indigenous foe.