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TIL the CIA lost a plutonium powered device in the glaciers that birth the Ganges River (Nanda Devi, 25643 ft) trying to spy on Chinese nuclear missile activity. There is still concern regarding the location and integrity of the radioactive material.

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Vo5Z TIL Sigmund Freud, who revolutionized the practice of psychiatry with his theories of the unconscious, postulated that depression comes from anger turned against oneself.
Q8eM TIL In X-men, camera tricks are used to make Hugh Jackman appear shorter because at 6'2 he is almost a foot taller than Wolverine is said to be in the comics… 5'3.
MKR8 TIL Maria Sharapova has a candy company called Sugarpova. She was seriously considering changing her name to Sugarpova before the 2013 US Open.
need7 TIL Willem Dafoe was expelled from high school for shooting a pornographic film.
M7Vam TIL - There are more possible iterations of a game of chess than there are atoms in the observable universe.