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TIL Scotch tape lets you see through frosted glass

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QNXQ9 TIL in 2015, the US Department of Defense accidentally mailed live anthrax to several locations in different states. This happened less than year after the CDC had done the same thing.
4KZX TIL dictator Robert Mugabe tried to stop a critic of Zimbabwe’s hyperinflation by levying ridiculous taxes on his newspaper; the writer retaliated with advertisements printed on trillion-dollar-bills, which was cheaper than actual paper.
PYDRL TIL that Washington’s first love was the wife of one of his best friends
D16dP TIL: In 1939 20,000 Nazis held a “Pro-Americanism” rally at Madison Square Garden featuring a massive portrait of George Washington sided by Swastikas.
QJoKa TIL that in 2017, a security robot quit its job by drowning itself in a fountain