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TIL: The concept of steganography which is the hiding of messages in plain sight. For example, Phyllis Latour Doyle (British spy) parachuted into France to spy on Nazis before D-day. She used knitting to record messages.

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OG5a TIL that while filming an episode of Hercules, Kevin Sorbo misread a stage direction as a line and dramatically screamed “DISAPPOINTED”. They left it in
LBB9 TIL that Ben Franklin published a list of 200 synonyms for “drunk”, which includes “Nimptopsical”, “Cherubimical”, and “Been too free with Sir John Strawberry.”
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