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TIL about auto-antonyms, which are words that can have 2 different meanings that are the opposite of each other. (For example, the word bolt, which can mean "to secure together" or "to flee")

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471g TIL that starting in the late 1970s the US Army spent $20 million paying psychics to generate military intelligence. The program was terminated in 1995 after producing no useful information.
D1JaJ TIL of the Caretaker, an artist who made eerie, disorienting music that emulates dementia and memory loss. His work, "Everywhere at the End of Time" shows the progression of a "slow death of a soul" through 6 stages.
mAnx TIL On this day (February 15) 2416 years ago, Socrates was sentenced to death by people of Athens.
4jAJ TIL as the third man in history stepped onto the moon he said “Whoopee! Man, that may have been a small one for Neil, but that’s a long one for me”
d85E8 TIL Sony released a camera in 1998 that could see through people's clothes. It included an infrared powered night mode that consumers realized could turn dark fabric and swimsuits transparent. Sony sold 700k "x-ray cameras" before fixing the issue in manufacturing.