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TIL About the bulwar lytton bad fiction contest, a contest for cursed comments

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PYjmL TIL in 1965 CIA tried placing a nuclear powered sensing device atop Mt.Nanda Devi in India, to spy on Chinese nuclear testing, only to loose it within an year and it hasn't been recovered yet. Couple of years later the device was placed atop Mt. Nanda Kot instead.
Xx9R TIL that a US submarine placed a wire tap on Russian undersea cables to monitor secret military communications during the Cold War, and only found the cable after a week of searching because of a sign on the shore saying “Cable Here. Do Not Anchor.”
yQmV8 TIL the EDM artist Junkie XL has done the full scores for Max Mad: Fury Road, Deadpool, Sonic, Scoob, Alita: Battle Angel and more. He also has credit on Batman v Superman alongside Hanz Zimmer.
NXvD8 TIL the Frozen Food Aisle was created as a result of Clarence Birdseye learning how to flash freeze fish from the Inuits in the 1920s
ZpZbo TIL the winner of the 1994 Academy Award for Set Direction for the movie Schindler's List was named Ewa Braun.