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TIL $41 billion worth of gift cards have likely gone unredeemed from 2005 to 2011.

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wL0N6 TIL that WWII spy Odette Sansom was technically one of the first women in war. She was the second-ever female paratrooper as a spy for the "French resistance". In training, she learned how to kill one man in more than 100 ways, morse code, and encryption.
4v0a TIL that scientists have found a complete skull from a human ancestor believed to be 1.8 million years old. Known as Skull 5, the skull is entirely intact and has a long face, large teeth and a small brain case.
MYAW TIL the most successful interrogator of the Nazi regime used unspeakable techniques such as joyrides in fighter planes, walks through the countryside, and trips to the zoo.
mx59O TIL The fake cocaine actors snort on film is vitamin B powder, a common cutting agent for real cocaine.
G757 TIL that during the filming of Star Trek (2009) Zachary Quinto could not manage to properly do the Vulcan salute. Eventually, JJ Abrams had to glue his fingers together in order for Quinto to do it correctly.