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TIL The Secret Service that protects the U.S. President used to be part of the Department of the the Treasury. Their original mission was to stop the spread of counterfeit money, a function which they still serve today.

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QJGRd TIL If you were condemned to death in a Nazi medical experiment but later resurrected in another Nazi medical experiment you would be "pardoned to concentration camp for life"
Brxae TIL that the Hiroshima Flame of Peace was lit on 1st August 1964 in hope of a world without nuclear weapons, and it will continue to burn until nuclear weapons are abolished worldwide
VWkQ TIL there is a video game where you program the movements of a marching band. Micro Marching League.
4XkB5 TIL Ada Lovelace, the daughter of Lord Byron, was the first computer programmer back in the early 1800s
MexNB TIL a village in India is addicted to chess after one man taught everyone how to play 50 years ago to stop excessive alcohol use and gambling which has now all declined to almost nothing