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TIL that there was a cold war operation that gathered official documents from trash bins, because they were frequently used as tissue paper in the tissue-paper-less east germany

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Bl5d TIL ‘Jersey Shore’ was shown in Japan under the name 'MTV Jersey Shore: the New Jersey Life of Macaroni Rascals’
ANbDw TIL: In 1899, "hot mess" first appeared in print to describe something in extreme confusion or disorder. Complaining that people believed everything they read in newspapers, the Journal of the International Association of Machinists declared, "the public is a hot mess."
JA44 TIL Boomhauer’s dang ol first name is Jeff.
X0ojP TIL That there is no Q in any U.S. State name
R7lE9 TIL about Sonja Ivanoff, and the Alaskan law requiring any on duty police officer convicted of murder to have a mandatory 99 year sentence.