› added 8 years ago

138

TIL: The most successful intelligence operation in the Cold War; emptying supplies of Soviet Union toilet paper, forcing them to use documents, and retrieving these documents after use.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

0wvl1 TIL when you turn 100 years old in the UK, the Queen sends you a personalized telegram.
D1Wme TIL about Benford's Law - if you get a bunch of random numbers, the most common leading digit will be the number one (around 30%)
glmD TIL of Silent Migraines, which are migrains that have no pain, but people experiencing them can have vision loss, flashing lights, and wavy lines in the vision, and hallucinations
xVAAB TIL the US has the highest critical care hospital beds per capita, by a wide margin
9YxLm [TIL] Thebes had a special forces military unit comprised entirely of Homosexual Couples. The belief was that couples on the battlefield would fight their hardest to protect their lovers and not flee for fear of looking weak in front of their significant others.