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TIL in 1977, William Kampiles stole a top-secret KH-11 spy satellite manual from the CIA which he sold to the Russians for $3000. He then told the CIA for who he worked what he had done in the hopes that they would hire him as a double agent. They didn’t and he was sentenced to 40 years in prison.

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Meeva Everything, from your attempt to scoop it up to eat it, would be bad.
0QkN TIL the False Positive Paradox describes a situation where a “highly accurate” test is worthless if the testing condition is rare enough. Example: If 10 people in a city of 20 million are “bad guys” and a surveillance program identifies them with 99% accuracy, then 99.995% of positives will be false
vPpXK TIL although Emily Dickinson was not widely recognized during her lifetime, she wrote nearly 1,800 poems. However, only 10 of these were published during her life, without attribution and sometimes without permission.
VMywm TIL that a chihuahua named Milly had a world record for the smallest living dog in terms of height on February 21, 2013 who measured 9.65 cm or 3.8 inches
GAemg TIL that the last words of Apache leader and prisoner of war Geronimo were: "I should have never surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive."