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TIL the British Secret Service used semen as invisible ink during WW1, but stopped the practice later on because of the smell

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gr84W TIL: One of the largest charitable donations made by a lottery winner came from a man in Canada. Two years after his wife died from cancer, Tom Crist won the lotto and donated everything to organizations fighting the disease. Canada doesn't tax winnings, so Crist donated $40 million.
6Rw8 TIL of a correlation between legalized abortion and crime rates. In the aftermath of Roe vs Wade, Abortion was legalized in the US causing crime rates to go down.
oR9JY TIL that in 1895, J.P. Morgan & Co. supplied the United States government with $62 million in gold to float a bond issue and restore the treasury surplus of $100 million.
OGkee TIL that of the three astronauts on Apollo 13, one was the first death among people who flew to the Moon, and the other two are still alive (as of 18 July 2024)
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