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TIL of Oleg Gordievsky, a KGB/MI6 double agent. If he required MI6 rescue, he was to stand on a street corner in Moscow at 730pm on a Tuesday holding a safeway bag, wearing a grey cap. MI6 would acknowledge by walking past him eating a chocolate bar. MI6 monitored this street corner for 10 years.

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7r1Ax TIL Ukrainian Trident/Tryzyb was also the Coat of Arms of the Viking ruling dynasty of Kiev Rus 1,000 years ago, and it is believed to mean a symbol of the Holy Trinity
Yj9r TIL Bette Nesmith was a typist in the 1950s. She invented liquid paper because she was fed up with having to scrap a whole page due to a typo. Later she sold her company for over 40 millions.
N7DgE TIL that a second is called a second because it is the 2nd division of the hour. 1st = minute, 2nd = second.
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R78La TIL Jim Henson lost the Hoggle puppet from "Labyrinth" after traveling back from the overseas movie set. The Unclaimed Baggage Center in Scottsboro, Alabama discovered it inside a lost shipping container and now it is on display at their museum of found treasures.