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TIL Australia once had a floating hotel that now lies decrepit and forgotten, in North Korea.

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p8KeN TIL of Charles Fraser-Smith (one of the inspirations behind 'Q' in the James Bond movies) designed a special left-hand thread for the disguised screw-off top of a hidden-document container; he thought that "no German would ever think of trying to unscrew something the wrong way."
R066 TIL that in August 2001, actor James Woods reported 4 suspicious men on board a flight. Those men turned out to be the 9/11 hijackers on a trial run.
0wBkM TIL that Area 51, aka Homey Airport or Groom Lake, was actually a testing facility for historical, technologically advanced military planes such as the Lockheed A-12. The US government's secrecy over the nature of these vehicles is what gave birth to myths about UFOs.
ooMR TIL in 2012 Miss America claimed to make $45 million of scholarship money available to women annually, where in reality, in 2012, the Miss America Foundation gave out less than $500,000 in cash scholarships
ERgP TIL There’s an organization called “419 Eaters” that is dedicated to wasting the scammers’ time by pretending to fall for their scams.