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TIL that the USSR knew as early as 1940 the US was working on the A-Bomb. Not through espionage, but because they noticed that top US scientists had stopped publishing papers. Thus "Secrecy itself gave the secret away"

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VBljZ TIL The United Arab Emirates population is 10 million of which only 11% are native locals. Majority are expats from South Asia.
Z8EWo TIL that in 'A Clockwork Orange', the term used to refer to Alex's band of antisocial delinquents ("droogs") is derived from the Russian word for friend or buddy.
VMVXG TIL So-called 'gut strings' for acoustic Spanish guitars were originally made from the small intestines of slaughtered sheep. The production material only changed - to nylon - during World War II, when all available gut was used in the production of surgical thread for wounded soldiers.
yQLXe TIL: In 2008, A man died in a traffic accident in Seoul. In order to identify him, his DNA was analyzed & revealed that the DNA of his blood, along with some of his organs, appeared to show that he was female. It was later determined that he had received a bone marrow transplant from his daughter.
grLO7 TIL in Leave the World Behind (2023), a coordinated attack of 1) disabling communications and transportation, 2) synchronized chaos via disinformation, and 3) civil war and societal collapse was the most cost effective way of destabilizing a dysfunctional society.