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TIL that Roald Dahl wrote the screenplay to the James Bond film "You Only Live Twice."

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rvrM TIL CIA Operation Mongoose tried to kill Castro with exploding cigars, shells to poisoned wetsuits, milkshakes, a former lover; character assassination via thallium to make his beard fall out and LSD. Castro: “If surviving assassination attempts were an Olympic event, I would win the gold medal.”
wERM TIL Aircraft black boxes are designed to be able to withstand the pressure of being a mile underwater for up to 30 days. In the case of the Airbus box on Air France 447 it spent over 2 ½ years at over 3 miles deep and was still able to determine the cause of the accident.
W7Ydd TIL: A 104-year-old British biscuit that explorer Ernest Shackleton gave to a starving companion sold at auction for £1,250. Years before, a biscuit from another Shackleton expedition sold for £7,637, even though just several crumbs remained.
M7M5a TIL that war has two distinct meanings: as a noun it means a state of armed conflict between different countries or groups; as a verb it means engage in a war.
ADyLn TIL about Carl Tanzler, a radiology technologist at the Marine-Hospital Service in Key West, Florida. He developed an obsession for a young Cuban-American tuberculosis patient. In 1933, almost 2 yrs after her death, Tanzler removed her body from its tomb, & lived w the corpse for 7 yrs.