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TIL about the Nanda Devi Plutonium Mission was a joint operation by the United States Central Intelligence Agency and the Indian Intelligence Bureau that resulted in a nuclear device getting lost in the Himalayas. It was never found.

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yQAm8 TIL of Herman Perry, an African-American WWII soldier who killed an officer and escaped into the Burmese jungle. Black soldiers were treated harshly and he had already been confined before. He won over and lived with a Naga tribe before he was found, then escaped again, then caught again and hung.
EgEWp TIL that when you snap your fingers, the noise is made when your finger slaps your palm, not when the fingers flick past each other.
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