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TIL Intelligence officers often use the acronym MICE to describe the four main motives for spying: Money, Ideology, Compromise, Ego

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4kpn6 TIL a man suffering from fatal familial insomnia, a condition whereby you become biologically incapable of sleep, attempted vitamin therapy, sensory deprivation, narcoleptics, and anesthesia to sleep, which prolonged his life by 12 months.
DQM7e TIL The first non-Christian, non-Caucasian superhero in American comic books was Kismet (Man of Fate), an Algerian superhero who debuted in 1944.
Z8KGD TIL that Bill Gates released a swarm of (not infectious) mosquitoes at a TED Talk to demonstrate that even if malaria doesn’t infect people directly, they should still care
jNxBX TIL the reason that men’s testicles are not internal organs like female ovaries is because sperm cannot survive at our internal body temperature. They require a lower temperature which is why they hang down, but also why the scrotum shrivels up when it is too cold.
m1aYo TIL of Operation Plumbbob, where a nuclear bomb was detonated in a vertical tunnel with a 2,000lb (900kg) metal plate plugging the surface. The plate was launched into the air at 6 times Earth's escape velocity