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TIL about Operation Midnight Climax, a CIA program in the 1950s and 1960s that involved the use of prostitutes to lure unwitting individuals into apartments that had been set up with hidden cameras and microphones. Part of MK-Ultra

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nWKb TIL, that during WWII, an American amphibious tank rammed a US destroyer while en route to the beach, “probably the only instance of a warship being rammed at sea by a tank”
4X916 TIL last year, the Indian Air Force fired a million dollar missile at a Pakistani balloon that said 'Happy Birthday' on it.
wQ9E TIL: A solar power plant in the Mohave Desert uses five square miles of mirrors to concentrate sunbeams on one central tower. It also incinerates about 6,000 birds a year.
9XKQ TIL that there’s a 4-mile long river in Peru that’s so hot that it actually boils
x66kk TIL The Welsh engineering firm Taylor & Sons, which was founded in 1875, collapsed after a typo by Companies House in 2009 mistakenly listed them as being wound up, by confusing them with another company, Taylor and Son, that really was failing.