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TIL the CIA used a device called Jack in the Box, made from sex dolls cut from the shoulder down. If an agent was being tailed by the KGB, his driver would turn sharply, giving him time to hop out of the car. The driver would then deploy the device, so it would look like the agent is in the car.

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rNYJx TIL that in times with a greater proportion of single men competing for fewer women, beards and mustaches became more fashionable
ogdL TIL Alexander the Great expressed in his last will and testament the desire to see “transplant of populations from Asia to Europe and in the opposite direction from Europe to Asia, in order to bring the largest continent to common unity and to friendship by means of intermarriage and family ties.”
OoAXg TIL that the shortest performance to ever be nominated for an acting Oscar was just 2 minutes and 19 seconds of screentime, performed by Hermione Baddeley in 'Room at the Top' (1959).
69R58 TIL that the 1947 version of the Christmas film ‘Miracle on 34th Street’ was released in late Spring because the studio head argued that more people went to the movies in warmer weather, so the film was promoted without any references to Santa or Christmas.
PYk8w TIL The Amnesiac Incognito Live System (TAILS) is a Debian-based distribution focused on security and anonymity. It uses things like the system RAM and TOR browser to increase privacy. It will only write to removeable media and upon shutdown, RAM is wiped.