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TIL Jeff Turner made some of the most convincing counterfeit USD bills the Secret Service had seen in the last 25 years using bible paper and a consumer-grade inkjet printer.

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b6NlN TIL that Rear Admiral S. K. Gupta once convinced his fleet admiral to let him borrow a Sea Hawk fighter jet for 24 hours so he could fly home and get married, while India was preparing for war.
m11yM TIL that Nancy Astor, the first female Member of Parliament (UK) was an anti-Semite and Nazi sympathiser.
E1EW0 TIL about a group of 15 people who are living full-time deep inside Chernobyl's 30KM "exclusion zone". These people either refused to leave or went back to their homes after the 1986 disaster.
JQ9Q TIL, in India, it is illegal to know the sex of the child before its birth!
v1O0B TIL Sperm whale sonar clicks are so loud they can do physical harm to divers.