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TIL Adolf Hitler was worried Kilroy was the codename of a high-level Allied spy & Stalin was terrified when he found "Kilroy was here" written in the VIP bathroom. The first modern instance of a meme as counter intelligence.

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XYXE TIL the American and UK versions of the comic strip Dennis the Menace were both released on the same week in March 1951. Both share the same title, a trouble loving boy in a striped shirt, and a sidekick dog. Neither of the creators of either comic strip knew that the other was being created.
Y4DG TIL Apple is purposely slowing down your iphones with software upgrades designed to significantly slow down older models and force users to upgrade to new model. It’s a marketing practice called “planned obsolescence”.
w7Z7 TIL Otis Day and the Knights, famous for the song Shout, were a fictional band created for the movie National Lampoons Animal House
OowRR TIL that The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) is a collaborative project of volunteers who use freely available software to search for the largest possible prime number