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TIL of Active Measures, a Soviet programme of political warfare used mainly to weaken the West by sowing discord amongst allies, fracture alliances in particular NATO and to tarnish the image of the United States in the eyes of the rest of the world.

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awaNo TIL when JFK was only 3 years old, his father Joseph Kennedy narrowly escaped the infamous 1920 Wall Street bombing planned by a group of anarchists who used a wagon full of lead weights as a bomb. The explosion killed 38 bystanders, however, Kennedy was thrown unharmed to the ground.
j6VbN TIL contenders for the symbol now known as "interrobang" (‽) included "exclamaquest," "QuizDing," "rhet," and "exclarotive."
R7BP6 TIL in 1947, MGM produced The Cat Concerto and Warner Bros released a similar Bugs Bunny cartoon. Both used identical gags, the same piece by Fransz Liszt, and similar endings. Both MGM and Warner Bros. accused each other of plagiarism, after both films were submitted for Academy Awards ceremony.
7M6L TIL that Kenny G is extremely popular in China, and that his “Going Home” is used countrywide in malls, libraries and parks to let residents know it’s time to leave.
0wxAA TIL Hitler only ate "chocolate bars and biscuits" during the gala dinner he had May 4th, 1938 in Rome, when he was guest of the King of Italy.