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TIL that in 1990, Katya Mayorova was crowned as "Miss KGB", the world's only holder of a security services beauty title. She was described as "wearing her bulletproof vest with an exquisite softness", with one of her many charms "her ability to deliver a karate kick to her enemy's head"

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X0vnD TIL that in 1960 John Lennon and Paul McCartney played their only gig together as The Nerk Twins at a pub owned by McCartney's cousin. Lennon and McCartney visited for a week during the Easter holidays, worked behind the bar and performed twice over the weekend.
KbG4 TIL that when John Young, pilot of the first Space Shuttle mission, first heard of the shuttle’s congressional budget approval, he was standing on the surface of the moon.
Kw6J TIL Monopoly was originally intended to teach the player the broken nature of Capitalism
XVoX TIL The human appendix is no longer considered a vestigial (useless) organ. It plays an important role in your immune and lymphatic systems.
QVYM TIL that before he was a celebrity chef and television personality, Alton Brown spent 10 years as a cinematographer and commercial director. He only left the business for culinary school because he found cooking shows “dull and uninformative.”