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TIL that Polish mathematicans broke Enigma first in 1932, then handed over all the materials for free to the allied forces in 1939

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OKm1 TIL that the Velcro fastener was invented when a Swiss man named George de Mestral went for a walk in the woods and wondered if the burrs that clung to his trousers (and dog) could be turned into something useful. The answer, as we all know today, was yes.
D1BWr TIL Before committing suicide with gas, composer Peter Warlock locked his cat outside so that it wouldn't die with him.
69Y6Q TIL Requiem for a Dream was given a NC-17 rating cause of a sex scene involving Jennifer Connelly's character. When Darren Aronofsky refused to change it cause it'd undercut his goal of de-glorifying drug use by showing the worst places it can take a person, his distributor just released it unrated.
O98e TIL of a bank in Italy that holds their wealth in cheese rather than currency
MjrA TIL during 19th century construction of Paris’s underground sewers, workers found lost medieval dungeons, jewels, and the skeleton of an orangutan that had previously escaped from the zoo.