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TIL Ho Chi Minh used between 50 to 200 pseudonyms throughout his life

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E1nd0 TIL of Carl Laemmle, who migrated to the US in 1884. He started one of the first movie theaters in Chicago, challenged Thomas Edison's monopoly on films, began advertising stars to increase their earnings, founded Universal and sponsored hundreds of Jews to emigrate from Nazi Germany to the US.
W7NWX TIL 3M was originally a mining company called Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company
jNXPa TIL that the US military has an actual space force. It is the first new military service in more than 70 years since the us air force, which was established in 1947. The space force was established on December 20, 2019.
GALN1 TIL that during the falklands war in 1982 the british mistakenly killed three whales believing them to be enemy submarines.
DXge TIL there was a computer worm that would gain access to Windows XP systems, download a patch from Microsoft to close the vulnerability that it used to infect the system, attempt to delete the infamous Blaster worm (if present) from the system, then delete itself.