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TIL The Romans had water powered factories

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wZl6 TIL during the Cold War, the C.I.A. made a pornographic video featuring a lookalike of the Indonesian President in an attempt to discredit him, including the designing of a full-face mask resembling the President
R7Nv7 TIL it's very likely that military-style flails never existed. They are never described in medieval literature or chronicles. The original inventors were not weaponsmiths but illustrators. The smiths who made them from the 16th Century onward were just copying an idea rather than a thing.
WkjZB TIL In the 1700's, Ex-Slave Tom Molineaux Literally Fought his Way to Freedom, Becoming America's First International Boxing Superstar
Oo5BX TIL That honeybees are not native to North America. They were were introduced by European Colonists in 1622.
mxQVE TIL After studying every prediction that Spock made, it was discovered that the the more confident he was in his predictions, the less likely they were to come true. When he described something as being "impossible," he ended up being wrong 83% of the time