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TIL of Maximator, an intelligence alliance between the secret services of Denmark, Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands, and France. It is comparable to the "Five Eyes" and is named after a German beer.

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PQbO TIL that the word “Jay” used to mean stupid, and was eventually applied to country folk, who were seen as unworldly. When these country folk, or Jays, came to the city, they didn’t understand traffic signals and crosswalks and crossed wherever and whenever they could. Thus, they were “jaywalking.”
GAJXJ TIL That the theoretical black dwarf star is expected to be able to live for up to 10 to the power of 32000 years, meaning that when they go supernova may make it the last transient to occur before the heat death of the universe.
XEdmD TIL of the aptly named "Operation Torpedo" in which the FBI compromised 3 dark web pages by exploiting a flaw in the Tor browser and caught 19 owners of child pornography
RAA8 TIL in the late 80s, Paramount Pictures planned to make a Doctor Who movie. Their top choices to play the Time Lord? Michael Jackson and Bill Cosby.
Zxxp TIL in 1977 five TV stations in the UK had their audio simultaneously hijacked for over 6 minutes by someone claiming to be an Alien and warning Earth.