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TIL that in the early 1900s, you could buy heroin from Sears magazines

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4keN5 TIL of The Ghost Army. They were a United States Army tactical deception unit during World War II. During their tenure, the Ghost Army carried out more than 20 deception campaigns, putting on a "traveling road show" using inflatable tanks, sound trucks, fake radio transmissions, scripts and pretense
eQKg TIL that the years 1961 to 1972 are referred to as the “Golden Age of Hijacking” when more than 150 flights were hijacked in American airspace. At its peak aeroplanes were hijacked at a rate of nearly one per week
9Y1BB TIL 2017 was the first year the Doomsday Clock changed by seconds and not strictly minutes
GAw4J TIL in two boys from Ireland (10 & 13) went on a Transatlantic Flight to New York City as stowaways over Christmas break 1985.
nerr7 TIL of the powerful Medici family of Florence, that produced four popes, two queens & other royals, influenced the renaissance age, bankrolled the church and kings, patronized Leonardo Da Vinci, Michelangelo & Galileo, invented concept of ‘holding company’ and helped fund invention of the piano.