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TIL that Thai people have a fashion subculture called “Hitler Chic”

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b9O1N TIL in the 1970s, the Soviet bugged IBM typewriters used by the US in Moscow and Leningrad using sophisticated keyloggers. A total of 16 devices were used and despite the large size of the bugs, they remained undiscovered for 8 years.
Me7eW TIL that Abraham Lincoln (yes, THE Abraham Lincoln, the president of the USA) was a wrestler in his youth and that he invented the chokeslam (the chokeslam is not mentioned in the article).
7rW87 TIL Roughly half of the antacids produced are fed to cows to offset the effects of a forced corn diet.
VMYQm TIL that John F. Kennedy liked to say: “The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of moral crisis preserve their neutrality.”
l7LLa TIL Icarus is actually a story about finding the middle way between the wing-melting sun and ocean, the earliest surviving example of the "golden middle" in Ancient Greek philosophy