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TIL the CIA website has a Kids’ Zone where kids can play spy based games including an aerial analysis game.

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R7Klj TIL Casio was widely accused of false advertising after launching an ad where a hockey player used a g shock as a puck to demonstrate its toughness. However once a TV news channel replicated and verified the ads authenticity it gained popularity amongst the general public.
NXrX8 TIL that László József Bíró was a Hungarian inventor who patented the most commercially successful ballpoint pen also invented the automatic gearbox. He also at some point in his life, worked as a hypnotist, insurance salesman, book publisher and he also sold oil.
rRjwo TIL Servius Tullius,6th king of rome, was ousted and killed because he was accused of favoring the lower class of Rome over the wealthy.
gMNxW TIL about two boys from Dublin who travelled to New York via London on their own while evading authorities at only 8 and 10 years of age. They told their mother they wouldn’t go far as she had the dinner on.
p8KK4 TIL that the guy who wrote "Awesome God" was ejected from a Jeep and then ran over by a semi truck