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TIL The Creator of Sea-Monkeys was a Nazi

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kOla4 TIL when Canada invented coloured designs on their coins, US Army contractors thought they were spy devices filled with "nanotechnology"
Y5vx TIL All the numbers on a roulette wheel add up to 666.
bE80 TIL that the last car to have a cassette deck come standard was the Lexus SC430, in 2010.
aKbJ TIL an Australian infant vanished in 1980 and her mother served prison time for the murder, and 32 years later it was declared she had actually been taken by a dingo.
neaaG TIL that before the adoption of artificial light in the 18th and 19th centuries, there's historical evidence for "first sleep" and "second sleep"—that is, an interrupted pattern of sleep in two shifts of slumber roughly four hours each, with a period of wakefulness in between.