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TIL the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) failed 95% percent of the time to stop undercover investigators from smuggling weapons or explosive materials through screening.

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YeVr TIL if a member of the US military or a US official is detained by the International Court in the Hague, the US has a law allowing it to invade the Netherlands to release them.
kOZB TIL that American soldiers are committing suicide at the rate of 1 per day
yg1a TIL Mad Men paid $250,000 for the master recording of “Tomorrow Never Knows” by The Beatles, played for just two minutes during a season 5 episode.
b6DA0 TIL that during WW2 Ireland’s President and Prime Minister both sent Germany their condolences on Hitler’s death.
4XEGb TIL cartographers protect their intellectual property by slipping fake streets, or even entire towns, into their maps. If the street/town shows up on another map, they know it was stolen. Dictionary writers have been known to do the same thing with fake words.