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http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/06/080602-titanic-secret.html 

TIL that when Robert Ballard announced he was mounting a mission to find the Titanic, it was actually a cover story for a classified mission to inspect lost nuclear submarines. They finished before they were due back, so the team spent the extra time at sea looking for the Titanic—and found it.

However some of the comments are even more thought-provoking.

Yep. And we know that the Howard Hughes deep sea mining expedition was a cover up to retrieve a sunk Russian nuclear submarine. So when two Google billionaires and James Cameron announce an asteroid mining venture, you some crazy s*** is up!

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In 1970 (Hunter S.) Thompson ran for sheriff of Pitkin County on the “Freak Power” ticket promoting the decriminalization of drugs (for personal use only, not trafficking, as he disapproved of profiteering), tearing up the streets and turning them into grassy pedestrian malls, banning any building so tall as to obscure the view of the mountains, and renaming Aspen, Colorado “Fat City.” The incumbent Republican sheriff whom he ran against had a crew cut, prompting Thompson to shave his head bald and refer to his opposition as “my long-haired opponent.”