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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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BrDLr TIL Emilio Morella is an Argentine man who was the first documented person born on the continent of Antarctica, in 1978. His pregnant mother had been airlifted there by Argentina in order to support their claim for part of the Antarctic as their territory
QYxa TIL Ulysses S. Grant’s real name was Hiram Ulysses Grant. A congressman who nominated Grant for attendance at Westpoint wrote down the wrong name and it just stuck.
LkW0Z TIL about Grace Hopper who was the inventor of the first compiler, the intermediate program that translates English language instructions into the language of the target computer.
5YdQD TIL that when dinner forks were introduced to Europe in the late Middle Ages, they were considered to be a tool of the Devil and were thus banned by the Catholic Church
W4XL TIL there was an all girl band that would throw a ‘Golden Condom’ to the audience, and whoever got it, male or female, was taken backstage to have sex with band members.