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TIL Rio’s $12 billion 2016 olympic park is mostly abandoned and off limits to tourism.

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16n4W TIL that in 1978, Vietnam veteran and US Army Lieutenant Colonel Jim Channon proposed the formation of the 1st Earth Battalion; a New Age revamp of the American military, trained in psychic powers and pacifism. Channon's ideas later inspired the book and movie "The Men Who Stare at Goats".
rRdEW TIL of Terence Kirk, an American soldier who was captured by the Japanese on Pearl Harbor day and spent the entire war at a brutal prison camp. While there, he built a camera out of scrap, and took many pictures. After the war, he was put under a gag order, and only told his story 38 years later.
0wR0A TIL of the Visible Human Project, where in 1993, a murderer was frozen, sliced and imaged, millimeter by millimeter, from the top of his head to the bottom of his feet, for science.
07ML TIL that the Guinness Book of World Records was started by Guinness Beer to stop bar arguments
bvGj TIL Skyhook from The Dark Knight is a real thing developed for the CIA in the 1950’s and used until the mid 1990’s.