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TIL That Jacques Cousteau helped in the search for oil off the coast of Abu Dhabi by collecting rock samples.

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EAP7 TIL that Target has 2 U.S. based forensic labs where they solve retail crimes, felonies, homicides, and special circumstances cases for law bureaus that need the extra manpower, facilities, resources and time – free of charge.
4k0rb TIL in 1973, illusionist Uri Geller, famous for spoon bending acts, tricked the CIA into believing he had psychic powers. During classified experiments at Stanford Research Institute, he replicated hidden drawings convincingly using stage magic.
rR4bo TIL of the “Great Sparrow Campaign” (打麻雀运动), during which Mao Zedong ordered the Chinese people to kill all sparrows, because they were eating farmers’ seeds. With the sparrows dead, the insect population exploded, and locusts devastated the rice fields.
VMrMQ TIL Hifumi Togo was originally going to be a member of the Phantom Thieves as the teams brains, along with a scrapped character that was meant to be a radically minded strategist. However, the story was already exceedingly long at the time, so both ideas were scrapped and Hifumi became a Confidant.
PbDe TIL that in 2010, an ex-amusement park worker created a roller coaster concept specifically and efficiently designed to kill its passengers with “elegance and euphoria.”