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TIL about Ross Ulbricht and Silk Road - Ross went from an Eagle Scout to running a billion dollar underground drug market

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4k6pX TIL Throughout the WWII there were many rivalries between Office of Strategic Services (precursor to the CIA) and other US Intel departments. The prevalence of Ivy League graduates and high society gave rise to the dismissive name for the OSS "Oh, So Social.”
epMgD TIL about Frederick Valentich, an Australian pilot who disappeared during a flight in 1978 after reporting an unidentified object following him and saying, 'It's not an aircraft.'
RGZQ TIL of planet HD 189733b, where it constantly rains molten glass of over 1500°F horizontally in 6000kmph winds
4Ydw TIL Seattle has so few African Americans downtown due to racial restrictive covenants which lasted well into the 1960 preventing minorities from owning homes in certain neighborhoods.
nevOB TIL L. Ron. Hubbard’s own son, L. Ron Hubbard Jr. was highly critical of Scientology and claimed black magic was the inner core of Scientology once stating, "my father did not worship Satan. He thought he was Satan."