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TIL Enterprising Kenyans pretended to be Somali pirates and gave fake interviews to foreign journalists for cash

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Ypa1x TIL that the Mississippi River has been forced through New Orleans artificially by a series of floodgates. If they fail it will shift course 85 miles west and make America's largest port effectively useless overnight.
1aB1X TIL that the US military used to keep planes loaded with nuclear bombs in the air at all times; in 1961, the plane failed, dropping the bombs in North Carolina, though they did not detonate. This was only made public in 2013.
PaeZ TIL There is a natural neuron in your brain that mimics the actions of people around you, like walking the same way and speed of a friend.
Vy5G TIL that Rockstar Games hired a private investigator to locate the remaining relatives of one of the members of the Skatt Bros. in Utah in order to obtain license rights to the song “Walk The Night” for use in Grand Theft Auto IV
MeD58 TIL Steve from Blue's Clues left the show partly because he was losing his hair, not because he died