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TIL Michael Goleniewski was a Polish military officer and triple agent who revealed more spies than any other agent in history.

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X05WD TIL that a study in 1976 concluded that there is between 20-60mg of protein per ml in Semen.
9Y676 TIL Serbian is practically the only European language whose speakers are fully functionally digraphic: that is, they commonly use two different alphabets to read and write (Cyrillic and Latin)
GYAB1 TIL of the Lead Mask Case: the unsolved death of two men found on a hilltop wearing lead eye masks with no apparent injuries. A nearby notebook was found to contain the message '16:30 be at the specified location. 18:30 ingest capsules, after the effect protect metals await signal'
DQBAP TIL there have been 16,000 books and articles published on Lincoln—125 on the assassination alone—more than any other American.
awrJ9 TIL that Durex released a service called SOS condom, where condoms would get delivered to houses in 2 hours. It launched in Dubai, but the government banned it in a week. They ran an internet poll to vote on where it would be next, but trolls voted for the city “Batman” and won, and it was canned.