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TIL the peace symbol is a combination of the semaphore letters N and D, which stood for Nuclear Disarmament

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8a1eK TIL The Titanic Was Found During A Secret Cold War Navy Mission
ORm7 TIL A man tried to rob two banks after covering his face with lemon juice in the mistaken belief that, because lemon juice is usable as invisible ink, it would prevent his face from being recorded on surveillance cameras.
Oo4pe TIL a substitute teacher in Ohio was convicted of four felony counts and sentenced to 90 days in jail along with 3 years of probation, for showing a high school Spanish class the 2012 horror film “The ABCs of Death”.
6EM5l TIL that a Russian car magazine accidentally revealed a top-secret Russian submarine
Z87Xo TIL that the mystery novelist Agatha Christie posthumously saved a girl’s life by having written in one of her stories about a rare poison. That same poison was killing this girl in real life, and the doctors had no clue, but a nurse happened to be reading that story at the time.