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TIL at the special screening of the James Bond movie 'Spectre' at the MI6 building in Vauxhall Cross, the real MI6 staff cheered when the building was blown up in the movie.

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X0geQ TIL: The seasonal flu H1N1 that travels the world is now thought to be an attenuated strain of the original H1N1 Spanish Flu virus that caused the 2nd most deadly pandemic killing millions after WWI. The earlier hypothesis was that it contained genes from both the Spanish Flu and a seasonal virus.
nDrP TIL there are tilted windows in Vermont called “witch windows”. The name appears to come from a superstition that witches cannot fly their broomsticks through the tilted windows.
b9oe7 TIL: GPS signals are being spoofed in some areas of Moscow: “the fake signal, which seems to center on the Kremlin, relocates anyone nearby to Vnukovo Airport, 32 km away. The scale of the problem did not become apparent until people began trying to play Pokemon Go.”
p85PN TIL of Raphael Lemkin, a Holocaust survivor who went on a one-man 15 year crusade to get genocide condemmed under international law.
e4PE TIL Ronald Reagan was so against expanding Social Security for the elderly, he recorded a record album about it.