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TIL that economists have discovered that insider knowledge of top-secret CIA coups has been used to make huge financial profits

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YZkA TIL: Sun Tzu specifically advised against prolonged or pointless military campaigns and saying they would ultimately destroy a nation.
bvQa TIL that in the early 1950’s, Stanley Kubrick planned on moving to Australia due to his fear of death from a possible nuclear war between Russia and America.
N0K8 TIL that the full moon causes a tidal wave to roll up the Amazon river once a day and once a night for a period of only three weeks once a year, resulting in a continues, 4m high wave that can be surfed for up to 13km.
BrLpW TIL about Roman soldier Pantera. In Celsius' "The true word" Jesus was depicted as the result of an affair between his mother Mary and this soldier. Both the ancient Talmud and medieval Jewish writings reinforced this notion, referring "Yeshu ben Pantera", which means "Jesus, son of Pantera"
mxKgY TIL in 1964 a super cyclone destroyed a town called Dhanushkodi, making it into a ghost town. The storm overturned a train entering it's railway station killing over 200 passengers. 4 radio operators braved the storm to continue broadcasting, and survived by clinging on to a bridge for 12 hours.