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TIL In 2004, the Parisian police in an uncharted area of the Paris Catacombs, found a secret room with a stocked bar and restaurant. They returned to trace the installed power and phone lines to discover they had been cut, with a note left behind reading, “Do not try and find us.”

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dBe8 TIL in 39 years, 3 months and 7 days, Voyager 1 (the farthest manmade object from Earth) has only traveled roughly 19 light hours.
MeodB TIL That Limp Bizkit's music video for the song "Rollin" was filmed at the top of the North Tower of the World Trade Center, and the song received the award for "Best Rock Video" at the 2001 MTV Music Awards on September 10th 2001. They also got a letter from the WTC thanking them for filming there.
Zy0a TIL that police can reject police officers that score too high in IQ claiming that “those who scored too high could get bored with police work”.
X0ExP TIL The Béarn, France's only aircraft carrier during WW2, never launched her aircraft in combat. Instead Béarn transported supplies and spent most of the war in Martinique. On the ship's only voyage to Europe Béarn collided with the USAT J. W. McAndrew killing dozens.
xVAGg TIL: Before we had man-made communications satellites, a technique called the "Moon bounce" was used to send long range radio signals. Radio waves were sent up from Earth, bounced off the Moon, and then back down to a receiver on Earth. The technique is still used by some amateur radio operators.