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TIL that people are more creative in the shower
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TIL modern nuclear submarines are so well cloaked that in 2009, two French and British nuclear ballistic missle subs collided in the atlantic ocean by pure chance. Moving very slowly, they were't able to detect each other just feet apart.
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TIL Psychologist Timothy Leary designed tests given to prisoners. After being convicted of drug crimes, he answered his tests in such a way that he was assigned to work as a gardener at a low-security prison from which he escaped
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TIL Charles Darwin was a member of The Glutton Club at Cambridge which met weekly to eat “birds and beasts, which were before unknown to the human palate”. He also regularly ate some of the animals he discovered in his travels including puma, armadillos, and his famous giant Galapagos tortoises.
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TIL that Sioux City, Iowa’s airport has the three-letter designator SUX. When the airport petitioned to the FAA for a different code, one of the alternatives offered was GAY.
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TIL that since 2001, all mail sent to federal agencies in DC is treated with ionizing radiation to kill viruses and bacteria.