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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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b95O7 TIL Cloudberries are an extremely rare berry because they cannot be grown commercially and can only harvested in the mountains,mainly Scandinavia.
yLZM TIL the ATF set up a sting operation during which they hired and then arrested a mentally retarded man, allowed armed felons to leave the store, arrested four of the wrong people, paid such high prices for guns that people sold them to the agents at a profit, and eventually got burglarized.
x6M9b TIL that when Borland needed a name for a new software product, developers wanted to call it "Delphi". Marketing wanted "AppBuilder". A few months before release, Novell shipped its own "AppBuilder", preventing that name's use. The developers got their wish and the company announced Borland Delphi.
b9rDE TIL the band Cannibal Corpse appeared in Ace Ventura: Pet Detective because Jim Carrey was a fan and wanted them. They declined at first because of a tour but agreed after production rearranged their schedule to accommodate them and when they met Jim "he rattled off lyrics to 'Rancid Amputation'."
kexm TIL that the Brits selling Rolls-Royce jet engines to the Soviets after WW2 (for non-military purposes) played a decisive role in giving the Communists the upper hand in the Korean War’s air battles. In Stalin’s own words: ‘Who in their right mind would sell anything like this to us?’