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TIL after Las Vegas cabdriver vanished in 2012, a tip suggested looking in Lake Mead National Park. However, a volunteer search team wasn’t allowed into the park until it got $1 million in liability insurance. After 6 months of family fundraising, the search began and his body was found in 2 hours

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4koDJ TIL Long term Labour Party Leader and former Australian Prime Minister Robert (Bob) Hawke was a CIA asset. Regularly informing to the USA and secretly promoting things like the ANZUS Treaty whilst leader of the Australian Unions
5jYn TIL that driving while drunk destroyed the Soviet spy network in the UK. After being arrested in London in 1971, Oleg Lyalin panicked and offered the names of every Russian spy. The UK government expelled 105 people from the country, and the USSR network in Britain “never recovered”.
4X6og TIL that in the Original Nintendo Games that Mario's Hat was created due to the graphical limitations of arcade hardware since hair couldn't be represented well.
a7nZ TIL Chipotle buys their avocados from Jason Mraz.
oB8vo TIL that a river of molten tin is the mold they used to make perfectly flat glass