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TIL about James Dallas Egbert III - a 16-year old college student at MSU who experienced an episode of self-harm and disappeared for several days. A family-retained private investigator believed Dungeons & Dragons was responsible, & began a nationwide panic sweeping both country & gaming industry.

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Mv5B TIL the US Navy’s most secretive naval base is located in a remote lake in northern Idaho. This base is believed to be used to develop stealth submarine technology and some locals believe that there is an underground waterway to the Pacific ocean used for top secret deployment
6EjGm TIL blood cancer patients only have a 30% chance of finding a suitable stem cell donor within their own family. Becoming a donor means you can become someone's life saving lottery ticket
VMMdm A broken heart is not a recognised medical condition, but there's evidence to suggest it can be fatal.
6EBoJ TIL that in Nazi Germany, the founders of Adidas and Puma (The Dassler brothers) secretly gave Jesse Owens a pair of track shoes that helped him win 4 gold medals for the Americans in the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. This gift is said to have spared their factory from destruction from Allied forces.
wLA57 TIL that during cold war, CIA conducted a $350 million cost secret project in 1974 called Project Azorian to recover a soviet submarine K-129 sunken in 1968 in the Pacific Ocean. It recovered only 1/3rd of the submarine, but the research lead to great advances in deep ocean drilling and mining.