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TIL that Canada caught and removed more spies from the U.S than from any other country in the last ten years.

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EE5X TIL the scene depicting the Omaha landings at Normandy in Saving Private Ryan cost $12 million and used up to 1,500 extras.
OoxXY TIL that there is a law called Godwin's law saying that if an online discussion (regardless of topic or scope) goes on long enough, sooner or later someone will compare someone or something to Adolf Hitler or his deeds, the point at which effectively the discussion or thread often ends.
vPREr TIL of the lucky bull of Turin. The tradition is that if a person puts their right heel on the bull’s testicular region and “turn on himself three times,” this will bring good luck.
Qgn9 TIL that a teen secretly lived in AOL’s HQ for 2 months, eating free food, using gym & showers, sleeping in conference rooms while working on his start-up. Everyone assumed he worked there
GYbb7 TIL nuclear physicist Nicholas Kemmer suggested the atomic symbol "Pu" for plutonium deliberately as a joke because it resembled "P.U." (an expression of disgust at a foul smell), yet no one objected, and it made it onto the periodic table.