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TIL a man was able to steal $10 million because bank employees kept an important code on a post-it on the wall.

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VMlKp TIL The United States has been in a state of national emergency ever since September 14, 2001
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GxeQ TIL, Burt Munro, a motorcycle racer & subject of the movie, ‘The World’s Fastest Indian’ (portrayed by Sir Anthony Hopkins), created the under-1,000 cc world record of 296.2593 km/h (184.087 mph) at Bonneville in 1967, which stands to this day. He was 68 years old and was riding a 47-year-old bike.
neM8B TIL the narrator in the new Call of Duty ColdWar Teaser trailer was a real KGB spy named Yuri Bezmenov, and the speech he gave in 1984 highlights what is happening in America today.
MeBx7 TIL that in the 1940s and 50s, the Quebec government deliberately misdiagnosed 20,000 orphans with mental illnesses as they would get larger federal subsidies for psychiatric patients than for orphans. The orphans were confined to psychiatric institutions, many being abused and lobotomised.