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TIL The US Embassy in Moscow was blasted with a microwave transmitter from 1953 to 1976 and a Spanish 2019 study found that “Moscow embassy employees in 1976 had a higher cancer mortality rate than the general population and a worse health status than Europe's embassy employees overall.”

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QyZX TIL In many Nordic cities, parents leave their children unattended in buggies in town, for long periods of time, while they have coffee or go shopping.
J1m1k TIL that Eugene O'Neill's only child - his son Eugene O'Neill Jr - died at the age of 40 by suicide. His last words were "Never let it be said of O'Neill that he failed to empty a bottle. Ave atque vale"
5YKgQ TIL that there is a town, in Kosovo, called Metrovica, which shows the ethnical division and tensions between Serbs and Albanians. The river divides two sides, one where Serbians live, and the other inhabited by Albanians. The bridge that connects both sides is blocked.
1a1dd TIL of the "May Incident" during WW2 Congressman Andrew J. May revealed highly confidential information that US submarines were surviving Japanese depth charges because they were exploding at a too shallow depth. This leak later led to the deaths of 800 crewmen and 10 submarines
p8rXp TIL about Bob Lambert, an undercover officer. He dated an activist while infiltrating her group, and even fathered a child, despite already having a wife and children. When the assignment ended, he simply vanished, leaving a two-year-old son behind. The London police paid £425,000 to avoid court.