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TIL about Project GUNMAN, the discovery of primitive keylogging technology installed by the KGB into the IBM Selectric typewriters used in the US Embassy in Moscow, enabling the Soviets to steal US secrets for eight years.

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mBjR TIL of Thomas Mott Osborne, who stamped out corruption as warden of Sing Sing prison. Framed for having sex with prisoners by a crooked banker, after his acquittal the inmates held a carnival in his honour
0wR4p TIL That hydrogen bomb testing destroyed an entire island, leaving nothing but a crater in its wake.
m1P5M TIL 99% of all US chicken is washed in chlorine before reaching consumers.
7BBp TIL The oldest cat to ever live was named Creme Puff and lived 38 years. Creme Puff’s owner had a second cat named Granpa, who lived 34 years. Both cats were fed a diet of bacon and eggs, asparagus, broccoli, and coffee with heavy cream.
1Y4O TIL Jerry Parr was inspired to join the Secret Service after repeatedly watching Ronald Reagan’s 1939 movie “Code of the Secret Service”. In the 1981 assassination attempt on Reagan, he was the one who saved his life.