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TIL that the Unabomber was a victim of MK-Ultra.
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TIL Stockholm, Sweden tested a “Speed Camera Lottery” where speed limit-abiding drivers were automatically entered into a drawing to win a prize pool funded out of fines paid by speeders.
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TIL an Olympic gold medalist snowboarder, who almost lost his medal due to trace amounts of marijuana in his system (but later claimed was secondhand smoke) is now the CEO of a marijuana distribution company.
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TIL that if you're seated in the rear of a modern jumbo jet, the walk to your seat is longer than the Wright Brothers' 120 ft first flight.
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TIL Boeing used depleted uranium plates as counterweights in its 747 airplanes and some helicopters. While relatively safe, some of these plates have been lost. They stopped using it completely in 1981.
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TIl about the Giant Golden-Crowned Flying Fox. An endangered species of bat found in the Philippines that has a wing span of 5.58 feet and grow as big as a human child.