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9w7QG 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.
DQ5AV TIL: The International Space Station has a separate Russian side rather than being entirely free-use.
p8R7Q TIL that the chemical element Berkelium is named after the University of California, Berkeley, which is named after the city of Berkeley, which is named after the philosopher George Berkeley, who, ironically, believed that the physical world does not actually exist.
p8lWp TIL that Fab Morvan of Milli Vanilli collaborated with the studio singer whose voice was on the albums
16lLD TIL 1 out of every 4 animals is a beetle.