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TIL Since 1988, US Presidential Debates aren’t debates at all, but closer to scripted news conferences where questions are agreed upon by both parties, answers are rehearsed into concise sound bites, and third parties are discouraged from participating.

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a8kDo TIL of Oskar Speck, a German man who spent seven years kayaking from Europe to Australia. Unfortunately, Australia declared war on Germany shortly before his arrival, and he was arrested on suspicion of espionage as soon as he made landfall.
16QpX TIL that Iran used jamming of control signals and spoofing of GPS to capture an American drone in 2011. Iran have since reverse engineered the drone to construct their own.
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