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TIL Russia secretly had maps so detailed of the Canadian Arctic during the Cold-War that other ships now use them over official maps.

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4XaGX TIL in a traffic stop, Arizona officials seized illegal drugs with a street value of over $1M, then got a search warrant for the driver's property which included a former KFC restaurant. In the KFC floor, they found a hole leading to a 590 ft tunnel where drugs were funneled from the Mexican side.
ZGOQ TIL due to heavy inbreeding, Louis XIV of France (17th century) is descended from Louis IX of France (13th century) in 368 different ways
1aLRW TIL Microwave power settings don't actually adjust the power levels. The magnetron simply turns on and off in cycles to allow heat to be radiated throughout the food.
e465 TIL Ashton Kutcher is a product engineer at Lenovo and invested in Skype and Foursquare when they were startup companies
JYe5V TIL: Before he was caught, Charles Ponzi the namesake of the Ponzi scheme successfully sued a newspaper for libel and won $500,000 in damages after it suggested there was no way Ponzi could legally deliver such high returns in a short period of time.