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TIL Operation Snow White, 136 US gov’t agencies were robbed by the Church of Scientology in the “largest infiltration of the government in history” with “5,000 covert agents” in order to purge documents that were unfavorable of Scientology.

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kO5pd TIL a Air New Zealand sightseeing flight to Antarctica was supposed to have Sir Edmund Hillary who became one of the first to climb Mount Everest. Subsequently the flight got caught in a white out and crashed in to Mt. Erebus killing all of the passengers.
Oo1Va TIL about India's mysterious Special Frontier Force (SFF) unit, which has been instrumental in occupying some key heights on the LAC with China in Ladakh to thwart any occupation by the Chinese troops.
OogPa TIL of Elizabeth Swaney, a completely average skier who managed to compete in the Olympics by cleverly manipulating the system
loLwA TIL there is a dialysis machine for liver failure
5YgDD TIL that there is one character owned by both Marvel and DC, named Access, whose sole purpose is to keep both universes separate