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TIL some people’s eye color can change based on their mood
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TIL that in 2005 burglars stole $71.6 million from a bank in Fortaleza, Brazil by setting up a fake landscaping company near the bank and digging a 256ft tunnel beneath two city blocks to the bank over 3 months. Neighbors noticed vanloads of soil removed daily but assumed it was business-related.
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TIL that during construction of the Golden Gate Bridge, construction workers intentionally emptied the waste of a toilet that was installed on a catwalk between the bridge towers over a Japanese freighter passing underneath. They aimed for the smokestack but missed it and hit the deck instead.
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TIL about the Lippisch P.13a, an experimental coal-powered jet fighter designed for Nazi Germany as a result of fuel shortages toward the end of WWII
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TIL After a Hong Kong gangster kidnapped the son of Asia’s richest man and extracted a US$130 million ransom, he phoned up the tycoon to ask advice on how to invest the money
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TIL that 15 year old John Gurdon’s teacher wrote that teaching him biology would be “a sheer waste of time, both on his part and of those who would have to teach him.” In 2012 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his pioneering work in developmental biology.