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TIL in December 1967, then sitting Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt went missing while swimming and was never found. Shortly after, a community swimming pool in Melbourne was named after him...

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Lvxv TIL (or more so, remembered) that the US ARMY’s training manual says the “use of force (torture) is a poor technique, as it yields unreliable results, may damage subsequent collection efforts, and can induce the source to say whatever he thinks the interrogator wants to hear.”
0wOmv TIL There are too many fossil-fuel power plants to meet climate goal of 1.5 C.
R78Aa TIL there is a race in Canada where people are racing in boats made of giant pumpkins.
5kVQ TIL Braveheart has been described as one of the most historically inaccurate modern films. One historian took particular exception to the costumes and compared it to, “a film about Colonial America showing the colonial men wearing 20th century business suits, but with the jackets worn back-to-front”
69WB7 TIL the blue Mustang nicknamed ‘Blucifer’ at the Denver international airport killed its creator, Luis Jiménez.