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TIL US Space Force members are called 'Guardians' and they are organized into 'Deltas'

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JYbEj TIL that a Kentucky man escaped from jail after a friend of his faxed the prison a false demand for his release from a grocery store. It took two weeks for the authorities to realize their mistake and start looking for him. He was found at his mother’s house.
QNQPd Til a boy in Pakistan cut his own hand when an imam asked 'Who among the crowd had stopped praying?'He misheard the question and raised his hand by mistake, But the crowd accused him of Blasphemy. So he went to his house, cut off his hand, put it on a plate, and gave it to the cleric.
Zp0v4 TIL of Steganography, a field similar to cryptography, but that involves concealing a message rather than encoding it. For example, hiding an image in audio, or even hiding one image in the data of another. A famous example, a POW in Vietnam blinked TORTURE in morse code during a newscast.
lZ6V TIL that Auroville an experimental township in India has its own political system, it’s own laws and with no currency, still a sustainable economy. There are currently 2345 people who live in harmony above all creed , all politics and all nationality. It’s main purpose is to realize human unity.
bbdj TIL that George Clooney bet Michelle Pfeiffer and Nicole Kidman $10,000 he wouldn’t be married or have children by age 40. He won the bet and offered double or nothing by age 50.