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TIL: The Mystery of the Voynich Manuscript

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kOaee TIL In 2002, highly toxic counterfeit cigarettes were being sold in the UK. The cigarettes were produced in unhygienic factory conditions, included tobacco sweepings, sawdust, dirt, banned chemicals. The cigarettes accounted for at least a quarter of all cigarettes smoked in Britain that year.
GdA7 TIL A Vancouver police officer pretended to be disabled and brain-injured from a motorcycle accident and borrowed a wheelchair to work undercover in an impoverished neighborhood. He waited for someone to assault or rob him but instead people approached him by donating food and spare change
gmBD TIL William Banning (father of a soldier who was killed in the Korean war) sent his son’s purple heart, and an angry letter to Harry Truman, blaming him for his son’s death. Both items were found in Truman’s desk after he died 20 years later.
D1M0g TIL that Sergio Leone and Ennio Morricone were classmates early in life before becoming collaborators in film later on
ne4YP TIL That women with 10 or more sexual partners were the most likely to divorce and women with 0-1 sexual partners were the least likely to divorce