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TIL that this year 3 top UFO investigators have died, all under mysterious circumstance. in an update today it was discovered the third managed to send his mother a text saying “If anything happens to me, investigate.”, just days before his death.

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RQE7 TIL that in the 1960’s, for fear of having their submarine communication cables cut by the Soviets, the US military sent 480,000,000 copper needles into space to secure their communications infrastructure. The needles acted as a mirror for radio waves, enabling communication between distant sites.
VR8D TIL that the battle of Chosin Reservoir in the Korean War was lost… Due to Tootsie Rolls. A codereader mistook the code for mortar shells (“snacks”, they were called), and literally sent hundreds of crates of Tootsie Rolls to the marines who were out of mortar rounds.
0dgeL TIL that most sewers are just small pipes, and not spacious, cave-like tunnels.
567r TIL that legendary gambler Phil Ivey won over $9 million dollars playing baccarat with the help of a woman named Chen Yin Sun. Sun spent hundreds of hours memorizing flaws in the patterns on the back of the playing cards–aberrations along margins of the card backs, no wider than 1/32 of an inch.
yV8rp TIL: One of the generals in the Second Liberian Civil War tried magical invisibility spells in combat & when they failed, ran into fights nude to avoid his clothes being seen. Afterward he tried to reform his image by converting to Christianity, but the public doubted the honesty of his conversion.