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TIL, the CIA hunted down top Nazi scientists after WWII, in hopes of convincing them to help develop weapons and the space program that took the US to the moon. These Nazis and their families received full American Citizenship and their war crimes were well known to the officers that found them
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TIL Dry Aging is the process by which large cuts of beef are aged for anywhere from several weeks to several months before being trimmed and cut into steaks. It’s a process that not only helps the steak develop flavour, but also makes it far more tender than it would be completely fresh.
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TIL about a species of caecilian called the Boulengerula taitanus. Mothers of this species develop an outer layer of skin that’s rich in nutrients after laying their eggs. Once hatched, their offspring use specialised teeth to peel and eat this outer layer of their mother’s modified skin.
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TIL that from 1968 to the early 1990s, the BVD (intelligency agency of the Netherlands) created the “Marxist–Leninist Party of the Netherlands”, a a fake pro-China communist party in set up to develop contacts with the Chinese government for espionage purposes. The fake party even had newspapers.
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