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TIL In the 1950s, the Egyptian Secret Service had their spy in London buy all of the James Bond books so they could analyse British espionage methods believing it was based on reality

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rR8le TIL Antidote for poisoning consisting of 65 components was named Mithridate after its inventor King Mithridates VI. The King fortified his body with it so well that when he tried to kill himself with poison not to surrender, he failed and had to ask a soldier to pierce him with the sword.
JYJPj TIL that Richard Nixon appointed four Supreme Court justices during his time as president of the United States.
0wv7A TIL Mick Fleetwood of Fleetwood Mac played a fish alien on 'Star Trek: The Next Generation', shaved his iconic beard for the part, and had to do 19 takes to say one line, "Food."
xV5Mk TIL that along with making AK-47s, Kalashnikov is now starting to make electric cars
R5Dd6 TIL due to the failure of the Boeing 2707, a Concorde competitor, and a downturn in general aviation in the 1970s, Boeing fired 60,000 employees. So many people left Seattle that a billboard was placed near the airport that read "Will the last person leaving Seattle turn out the lights?"