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TIL infamous Jimmy Saville, a true "master of hiding in public", was familiar with British upper class, so much so former Prince and today's King Charles would ask HIM instead of all of his stuff for advice on delicate speeches because he considered Saville down to earth and a man of the people.

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D1MPg TIL that infrasound, a sound wave with frequencies below 20 Hz making it unable to be heard by people, can cause recipients to feel fear, anxiety, sorrow, depression, and nausea; it has also caused recipients to see hallucinations which causes them to think of it as a paranormal/supernatural event.
NXgnE TIL that the Giants and Dodgers used to be based in New York and Brooklyn respectively. For different reasons they both coincidentally moved to the West Coast around the same time, continuing their same-state rivalry
9wvbG TIL there are fungus that mimic flowers! 23 minutes deep in video.
xZe1 TIL that the microcontroller inside a Macbook charger is about as powerful as the original Macintosh computer.
GAP9Q TIL In 2005, the CIA destroyed over 90 video tapes showing the torture of two Al-Qaeda suspects at a black site in Thailand in 2002. In 2010, the Justice Department declined to charge the Chief of the Directorate of Operations (Jose Rodriguez) for ordering the destruction of the tapes.