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TIL that the Stasi is widely considered to be the most effective intelligence agency during the Cold War. 1/63 East Germans were collaborators. Including part-time informers, they had an agent for every 6.5 people. Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal called them more oppressive than the Gestapo.

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AD0nB TIL in 1998 Alice Walton (Sam Walton’s daughter) could have paid a $650 fine, instead she fought it and got convicted of DWI. After being released she went to the hospital for a blood test to prove she wasn’t drunk and tested at a .16.
BgWKr TIL in 1790, George Washington checked out (and never returned) two books from the New York Society Library, one of which was finally replaced, in 2010, by representatives of his estate at Mount Vernon
j6Jwp TIL in 1923; Frank Hayes, A racing jockey was Racing the horse named sweet kiss, Had a fatal heart attack midway through the race and died. The horse and his body crossed the finish line. Making him the first and only racer to win a race after death.
o1KL TIL that Asian men are found to be less attractive than men of other races, even Asian women rated men of other races as more attractive than Asian men.
XNrX TIL: When Microsoft shutdown Halo 2 multiplayer, one player kept his xbox running for a month playing until he was booted from the game.