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TIL during the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis a second U2 Spy Plane had strayed into Soviet Airspace. When radioing for directions an unknown voice told him to turn right 35 degrees which would have taken him deeper into the Soviet Union. When asked for an identifying code there was no response.

J4Ql TIL that in Japan, avid golfers buy insurance to protect themselves on the course. They purchase it because if they get a hole-in-one, they have to buy gifts and drinks for their friends. The policy covers them for a party worth up to $4,900.
VMN8k TIL Detention Deputies located $1,090.00 in U.S. currency hidden in the rectum of a 26-year-old man after they apparently smelled marijuana in his car.
1Nj4 TIL that during the Holocaust, Polish doctors Eugene Lazowski and Stanisław Matulewicz saved 8,000 Jews by creating a fake Typhus epidemic. The Germans quarantined the area instead of risking outbreaks by sending them to concentration camps.
Lk0oQ TIL unprovoked, Courtney Love picked on Gwen Stefani saying "Being famous is just like being in high school. But I'm not interested in being the cheerleader. I'm not interested in being Gwen Stefani." After that quote Gwen recorded her first solo album with the cheerleader anthem "Hollaback Girl."
J1Ql8 TIL Schrodinger constructed his famous "cat experiment" to show that misinterpretations of quantum theory can lead to absurd results that do NOT match the real world - today many popularizers of science have embraced the absurdity of Schrodinger's Cat and claim that this is how the real world works