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TIL that the Pentagon has never passed a financial audit
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TIL On October 23, 1999, BASE jumper and stuntwoman Jan Davis made a protest jump off El Capitan to lift Yosemite’s BASE jumping ban. She died in the process. The ban remains intact.
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TIL of James Lafayette, a former slave who acted as a double agent during the American Revolution. He was able to travel freely between American and British camps, and foiled Benedict Arnold’s plan to storm Yorktown. This led to the British surrender.
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TIL that there is a drug that actually causes the body to burn fat and release the energy as heat. It’s so effective that it actually causes overheating of the body, and side effects of this could include cataracts, because parts of the eyes are extremely sensitive to heat.
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TIL Viggo Mortenson was offered to reprise his role in The Hobbit films. He asked, “You do know, don’t you, that Aragorn isn’t in The Hobbit? That there is a 60-year gap between the books?” Apparently, after that the filmmakers didn’t even formally offer Mortensen the chance to return.
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TIL Michael Jackson’s iconic glove was used to hide the start of his vitiligo