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TIL there’s a foundation that takes unwanted and lost diaries.

Read more thegreatdiaryproject.co.uk

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oB4OL TIL: in the late 1960s, US plane hijacking had become so commonplace, specifically requests to be down to Cuba, but the industry so resistant to security changes, that a suggestion was seriously proposed to build a fake Havana airport in southern Florida to fool the hijackers into capitulation
QJPPX TIL Chinese spy Shi Pei Pu masqueraded as a woman and used a 20 year long sexual affair with a French diplomat to steal intelligence. He even purchased a child and convinced the diplomat it was his.
VQ10 TIL that is 2009 two men randomly decided to attack two men dressed in drag. It turned out the two drag queens were cage fighters in fancy dress.
LaYQ TIL that Jim Dale performed 300 voices for the Harry Potter Audiobooks and had to playback recordings of himself on set to remember each one, each time.
5YD6n TIL On The Rolling Stones record sleeves between 1963 and 1965 the band used the songwriter pseudonym "Nanker/Phelge" for collaborations where all band members took equal credit