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TIL of a 1972 CIA project to wiretap enemy phone lines deep within North Vietnam. The helicopter used in the operation, developed at Area 51, was the quietest ever built. In the dead of night, its pilots flew 100-200 feet above North Vietnamese farmers and anti-aircraft guns without being detected.

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l70MN TIL about Peter Fossett, a man born into slavery at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello. He later bought his freedom and became a conductor on the underground railroad, a military officer, and a pastor. His wife, Sarah, filed a lawsuit in 1860 which desegregated the streetcars in Cincinnati.
xVg0g TIL that the 2014 WW2 Tank movie "Fury" (starring Brad Pitt) was the first time in almost 70 years that an authentic German Tiger 1 tank was used in a feature film.
4pVw TIL: The scenes in E.T. where E.T. walked awkwardly or fell over was a 12 year old in an E.T. costume who was born without legs and walked on his hands.
m1Pop TIL the first submersible, the USS Turtle, was built in 1775.
oBk87 TIL An American woman from California named Carla de Vries kissed Hitler at the Berlin Olympics in 1936