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TIL that a French baker’s ignored compensation claim against the Mexican government sparked a chain of events that led to the first French invasion of Mexico.

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0wx7y TIL that in 1990, Katya Mayorova was crowned as "Miss KGB", the world's only holder of a security services beauty title. She was described as "wearing her bulletproof vest with an exquisite softness", with one of her many charms "her ability to deliver a karate kick to her enemy's head"
NXyQ1 TIL Antarctica has its own English accent, with over 200 words for different types of ice.
78Gd7 TIL that German scientists in the 1930s were the first to conceive of the atom bomb, but their research was abruptly ended in 1939 when the government conscripted them. The Nazis never got close to making a functional atom bomb because their scientists were in the battlefield.
9Y0Z6 TIL Bill Simm's 25-year Career at Transamerica, where he was elevated to President of the Reinsurance Division, was ended when the Charlotte Observer Discovered his Resume was riddled with lies including degrees and an Olympic Gold medal in 1968
wok6Y TIL that children born earlier in the academic year have a higher chance of participating in upper echelons of sports or academia. This is known as the Relative Age Effect.