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TIL that Joseph Stalin was only 5'3" (163 cm) in height.

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Rld9 TIL that scam emails deliberately use improper grammar and punctuation to filter out people who aren’t gullible enough
b9N57 TIL for the longest time (not anymore) the fastest man made object was a manhole cover blown into space in 1957 by the US with a nuclear bomb. They estimated approx. 125000 mp/h (200000 km/h). This would have had them zipping past Pluto around 1961.
Br8DL TIL that Ishinosuke Uwano, a WWII Japanese soldier who had been missing since 1958, was found alive in Ukraine aged 83. He’d been declared dead in 2000. He hadn't visited Japan in 60 years and had to enter the country on a Ukraine passport.
NX4DN TIL that Flick from ‘A Christmas Story’ went into Porn in the 1990s
rnW0 TIL, in 1986, a sysadmin looking into a $0.75 accounting error uncovered a KGB hacker that was stealing nuclear secrets