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TIL about Project Venona, the US effort to decrypt KGB/GRU intercepts leading to some of the greatest intelligence breakthroughs during the cold war. Including exposing critical Soviet assets, (ie. the Rosenbergs, David Greenglass, and Kim Philby)

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JYOLv TIL of the Genain quadruplets. Four identical quadruplet sisters born in 1930 who all developed schizophrenia, suggesting a strong genetic component to schizophrenia.
R5mZl TIL The Torch NYC is supposed to rise 1000 ft over Manhattan, and look like the Statue of Liberty's Flame towering over the city, but the project is currently stalled after digging the hole for it.
eZpE TIL that each U.S. driver crashes an average of once every 10 years and that cell phone use is involved in 26% of all motor vehicle crashes.
rRPrM TIL that US taxpayers paid $400 Billion ($4500 per household) to fund an internet superhighway infrastructure to be built by AT&T, Centurylink, Verizon, etc., that was never built.
a80yo TIL The 1994 movie Tammy and the T-Rex was conceived when the director Stewart Raffill was approached by a man who had a large animatronic T-rex that he was getting rid of. He asked Raffill if he could make a movie about, who agreed, and wrote the story for the movie within a week.