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TIL civilians in a McDonald’s once seized control of a NASA satellite using old radio parts from eBay and a salvaged flat screen TV.

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kOZp1 TIL about Jerusalem Syndrome, an acute psychotic disorder which causes some people who visit Jerusalem to slip into a psychosis and believe they’re a biblical figure
jY8X TIL Detroit has put in the most bids to host the olympics without ever hosting them
ODVY TIL that a Canadian politician, late to his own dinner party, may have inadvertently initiated the fall of the USSR.
RO78 TIL The Object 269, created by Soviet engineers in 1959, was a tank that was designed to survive a nuclear explosion.
b9WV0 TIL Viking military tactics succeeded mainly because they disregarded the conventional battlefield tactics, methods, and customs of the time. They ignored unspoken rules, like not attacking holy sites. To the contrary Vikings intentionally targeted religious sites for their vulnerability and wealth.