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TIL The soviet KGB had a secret beauty contest. Katya Mayorova was crowned "Miss KGB".

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nWmN7 TIL National Geographic editor Bill Garrett was fired from the magazine in 1990 because he wanted to publish more controversial features that raised production costs and stories about AIDS, Exxon Valdez oil spill were published under his direction
KOkDa TIL Boulevards of the Marshals: a collection of thoroughfares that encircle the city of Paris, each named after a marshal in Napoleon army.
M7yn7 TIL the M60 Light Machine Gun was made from the German FG42, essentially making it a "modernized" version of it.
WMmo TIL key parts of our ability to process and synthesize new information shut down whenever we’re confronted with something we disagree with.
RRyw TIL that someone created a mathematical world (similar to Wonderland from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland) called the Garden of Cosmic Speculation. It’s only open to the public one day a year.