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TIL That the precursor to the CIA published a field manual for regular people in Occupied Europe to resist the Nazis at their regular jobs

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MeEgb TIL at Willamette Falls a hydro-electric facility was built in 1888. It had a 14-mile long line to Portland, becoming the first long-distance transmission of electricity in the US in 1889. A second station was built on the falls in 1895 and is still operating today (Falls: USA 2nd highest flow rate)
loN1 TIL Despite it winning a Grammy, Foo Fighters didn’t like One by One after recording it
69147 TIL One of James Starley’s early inventions was a device that allowed a duck to pass through a gap in a fence, but stopped rats from following it, he would go on to invent the differential gear
ne8Mr TIL That Russia had a small colony in Africa (modern-day Djibouti) for about one month.
RLo4 TIL there was a thoroughbred racehorse with a series of significant wins in the late eighteenth century named Potoooooooo, or Pot-8-Os.