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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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4kb4X TIL the surname Poindexter is most common in the United States but actually originated from the island of Jersey between Britain and France where it survives in its original form of Poingdestre
9YyaQ TIL that computerized software that can read lips from video footage has allowed reconstruction of the dialogue in Eva Braun's silent home movies of Hitler at the Berghof.
4kdwN TIL that adding a pinch of sodium bicarbonate to the water helps peeling eggs so much easier.
grm6X TIL on 30 1993, CERN opened the World Wide Web, "a wide-area hypermedia information retrieval initiative aiming to give universal access to a large universe of documents," when it established the very first URL, http://info.cern.ch. It's still there.
4O05 TIL that in the 80s tens of thousands of americans were infected with HIV by drugs that the manufacturers knew were tainted, but continued selling anyway, and that no one was ever criminally charged for it.