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TIL The Kremlin had such a hard time with computer security that in 2013 they bought typewriters to prevent leaks.

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VMVn4 TIL Avocado, bay and cinnamon all belong to the the laurel family of flowering plants. Lauraceae comprises of about 2850 known species in about 45 genera worldwide. They occur mainly in warm temperate and tropical regions, especially Southeast Asia and South America.
gg6W TIL that there are fossilized forests with more than 300 ft tall (100 meters) trees in argentina that have been buried in ash for 150 million years
eRYL TIL The first postage stamp to depict a nude woman was printed in Spain in 1930, in commemoration of Goya’s painting ‘La maja desnuda’ (the nude maja). In the same year, the United States government barred and returned any mail bearing the stamps.
Wkmko TIL an objective test found that there was no real perceivable difference in audio performance between a coat hanger soldered to a jack and expensive, high end speaker cables.
rxE0 TIL Surfer Chris Blowes survived having his left leg taken by a Great White Shark, despite having no heart beat for the 90 minute trip to the hospital, during which the paramedics conducted nonstop, two-person CPR, keeping oxygenated blood flowing through his brain.