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TIL of the Association of Persecutees of the Nazi Regime which was accused of spying for the west in East Germany and of being a communist front organization in West Germany.

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X0g1E TIL the number of Indian seamen employed on UK ships was so great that the British tried to restrict this by the Navigation Acts in force from 1660, which required that 75 percent of the crew of a British-registered ship importing goods from Asia had to be British.
eB1E TIL the inventor of cell phone batteries, LCD-screens and rewritable CDs, Stanford R. Ovshinsky, was self taught and without formal college training.
XEAX6 TIL about Gladys West, a black woman who was inducted into the Air Force Space and Missile Pioneers Hall of Fame earlier this month for creating a precise mathematical model of the Earth in the 1980's that would be critical for the development of GPS technology.
XEPb6 TIL about the Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Lab science kit, arguably the most dangerous toy, which included four small jars of uranium
Y7mwG TIL about "The Two-Hour Rule" something the old Hollywood studios put in thier actor's contract stating they had to be within a two-hour drive of Los Angeles during production. This rule put Palm Springs on the map as a popular getaway to the stars.