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TIL that a "PAP" smear is not an acronym but refers to the doctor who pioneered the procedure.

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OG6Oe TIL The black doomsday ship in the James Bond film, Tomorrow Never Dies (1997,) was an actual piece of top-secret hardware built for DARPA and the US Navy by Lockheed. Sea Shadow (IX-529)
GAnr1 TIL Leonardo's painting, Mona Lisa, is one of the most important art objects on Earth, but it's not insured.
OG6gL TIL that slot machines run by the U.S. military earn $100 million a year from service members overseas
7rlOp TIL that after receiving a bad review on his book The World Rose, author Richard Brittain tracked down the reviewer's name and place of work from Facebook, took a train from England to Scotland, went to the store where she was working, and attacked her with a wine bottle.
LQrLP TIL about the Women's 1500m at the 2012 Summer Olympics, called "one of the dirtiest race in history", where six of the first nine finishers (1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th, 7th, and 9th) have been found to have been doping and the 1st, 2nd, 4th, 7th and 9th finishers were disqualified as of now.