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TIL That there is an Enigma message that hasn't been broken yet

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l7WyA TIL that PSA, a card grading company who also grades tickets, graded up to 101 tickets for the Observatory at the World Trade Center during 2024.
rNYQM Today I learned that Donald Duck was legally drafted into and discharged from the US Army during WWII
Z8maB TIL That both India and China have a shortage of women. There is an extra 80 million men between them- due to a sex ratio of 120 men born for every 100 women. It’s estimated that this is due to parents terminating unwanted female pregnancies in order to have more sons.
VwMp TIL that Allied forces planted a uniformed corpse with a briefcase in Spanish waters so it could be found and the contents of the briefcase would be leaked to the Germans in order to fool them of the Allies next moves. The idea came from Ian Fleming.
VnR4 TIL there is an adage known as Hanlon’s Razor. It states ‘Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.’