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TIL that John Dee, a courtier and spy of Queen Elizabeth I, would sign his name as “007” when sending coded messages back to her.

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GYK4J TIL a fed up Jet Blue flight attendant announced his resignation over the PA system upon landing. He then grabbed 2 beers from a beverage cart and exited by deploying the plane’s emergency slide.
eLw5 TIL In 2004, the Parisian police in an uncharted area of the Paris Catacombs, found a secret room with a stocked bar and restaurant. They returned to trace the installed power and phone lines to discover they had been cut, with a note left behind reading, “Do not try and find us.”
Z19D TIL that shipping is the most important industry in Greece. Greek shipping companies control the world’s largest merchant fleet of over 5000 ships including, among others, 1/3 of world’s tankers and ¼ of all bulk carriers by tonnage. Greek flag is the first-most-used internationally for shipping.
KYrMG TIL that the body of a 74-year-old woman who died of Alzheimer's in 2013 and whose son donated her body to Alzheimer's research was callously blown up by the U.S. Army for a "roadside bomb damage" experiment, despite her son's explicit wishes to exclude non-medical experiments and military use.
j666R TIL that Ozzy Osbourne was diagnosed with Parkinson's in 2003, while The Osbournes was still filming. He allowed people to joke about his symptoms, and attribute them to his previous drug use. He didn't reveal his diagnosis until 2020.