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TIL that there is one-way bullet resistant glass.

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4XKmo TIL that as the chair of the RNC, George HW Bush asked Richard Nixon to resign.
LQ56d TIL that Cape Disappointment was so named, by John Meares in 1788, who was searching for the mouth of the Columbia River as charted on Spanish maps. He had found the river but mistakenly thought the mouth was a bay, that the Spanish maps were wrong, and called it Deception Bay.
5VaP TIL that in 1893 H.H.Holmes (one of the first documented American serial killers) built a maze like hotel with full of traps where he murdered his victims
78Vyx TIL USA was involved in manipulating latin America's election last century
QN0Me TIL of Mathias Schenk, an 18 year old Belgian who was drafted to the German army in 1944 as a Sturmpionier (assault engineer) under threats of sending his father to the eastern front. He survived 19 knife fights and after the war travelled to Poland 32 times bringing food, clothes and diapers.