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TIL France and Mexico fought a war 1838 over unpaid pastries

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XE4VR TIL British spymaster Sir Mansfield Smith-Cumming, the first head of the MI6 and the inspiration of James Bond's M, started the practice of using semen as invisible ink during WWI. It worked well, until they realised that the letters smelled awful when received.
QJvg6 TIL of Pareidolia, the tendency of people to see faces, animals or objects in random data, such as clouds. The Rorschach test attempts to use this phenomenon to gain insight into a person's mental state.
rRdEW TIL of Terence Kirk, an American soldier who was captured by the Japanese on Pearl Harbor day and spent the entire war at a brutal prison camp. While there, he built a camera out of scrap, and took many pictures. After the war, he was put under a gag order, and only told his story 38 years later.
xV6J7 TIL that the word 'deli' comes from the German word 'Delikatesse' meaning "delicious things to eat"
MeWWW TIL: The national flag of Nepal is the only non-quadrilateral national flag in the world