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TIL of the ‘Judas Goat,’ a goat which would keep panicked livestock calm in a slaughterhouse. The goat would stay calm because it would always live.

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VBV8D TIL that during Watergate, in an effort to stop the Oval Office Tapes from entering the public record verbatim, the Nixon Administration proposed a compromise where Senator John C. Stennis, who was hard of hearing, would listen to the tapes and report on their contents. The plan ultimately failed.
Depe TIL Congressman Hale Boggs was the only member of the Warren Commission who doubted the infamous “magic bullet” theory used to pin the JFK assassination solely on Oswald. In 1972, Boggs disappeared while flying in Alaska and the crash and his remains were never found.
Br1kd TIL the ‘airline captain accent’ is actually a subconscious imitation of famous pilot Chuck Yeager passed from generation to generation.
vPy4r TIL: Thanks to poor internal communication at NASA, information about a spacesuit water leak wasn't properly communicated. Later, Astronaut Luca Parmitano almost drowned on a July, 2013 ISS space walk, his helmet filling with several liters of water before they could get him back inside.
165k4 TIL about Kowloon Walled City. A Chinese military fort-turned-slum which, by the 1980’s, was the most densely populated city on Earth. A city with no regulations or government, where up to 50k people lived.