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TIL baseball legend Hank Aaron was a fan of the Cleveland Browns of the NFL. He attended many of their games, sitting in the "Dawg Pound" seating section in disguise.

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Wkny4 TIL that the CIA paid Vietnam War spies by ordering them items from the Sears catalog because the spies operated in areas that had a barter economy and didn't rely on cash
DQVxr TIL that in 1958, a plan called Project Oilsand proposed using nuclear bombs to exploit oil from Alberta's Athabasca tar sands. The concept involved the underground detonation of up to 100 nuclear explosives to create intense heat; hypothetically liquefying the oil and making it easier to extract.
kJZA1 TIL that the yakuza have been involved in disaster relief efforts in Japan, often providing initial aid faster than the government - notably after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, a magnitude 9.0 quake that killed over 19,000 people
98Lp TIL from 1991 to 2000, 90% of the worlds LSD was produced by one man
J1Da8 TIL about Lydia Litvyak aka White Lily of Stalingrad, the world's first female fighter pilot to score a kill in combat and later to become the first of the only two female fighter aces, scoring 12 solo and 4 team aerial victories in about a year of active combat duty. She was KIA aged 21 years old.