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TIL at the start of Operation Good Hope, US forces were supposed to land on the beaches of Mogadishu under the cover of darkness. Instead, they were met by CNN who was covering the landing live on television.

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kOQw5 TIL the Great Salt Lake in Utah has an Island with over 500 wild bison
YpAP TIL Cleveland Indians player Jason Grimsley, crawled through the stadium’s ventilation system to get to the umpires’ office to retrieve a doctored bat. He replaced the illicit bat with an undoctored one. unaware of the fact that said teammate’s name was engraved on the bat.
a8n4L TIL in 1983, a soviet military officer “saved the world” from a full-blown nuclear war by disobeying orders, after receiving a false alarm of missiles fired by the USA
78nZx TIL of HEXAGON, a spy satellite used by the USA during the 1960s that captured several miles of film at a time, airdropping them into the ocean for recovery
0wgVN TIL that Jack Daniel (the founder of the whiskey) died from kicking a safe. When he kicked it, he broke his toe which got infected. He eventually died from blood poisoning.