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TIL Benito Mussolini denied the existence of homosexuality in Italy.

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LkZ10 TIL cryptanalyst Elizebeth Friedman broke 4,000 codes during WWII and brought down a Nazi spy ring by cracking an early version of the Enigma machine with pen and paper
OGeba TIL St. Patrick's day originally was celebrated with blue. George III needed to create a new order of chivalry for the kingdom of Ireland and needed a color for it. The Order of the Garter for the previous Kingdom of England already used a dark blue, so a lighter blue was used. It changed in ~1800.
LkrKP TIL M&M stands for Mars and Murrie.
ADRNx TIL that a "hamburger" is so called as it derives from Hamburg in Germany. I always wondered why something primarily made of beef has a name associated with pig meat!
16G0r TIL of Operation Pig Bristle. An Australian military operation conducted in 1946 during the Chinese Civil War, the goal of which was to obtain paint brushes in response to a national shortage of brushes used in home construction.