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TIL in 1945 a group of Soviet school children presented a US Ambassador with a carved US Seal as a gesture of friendship. It hung in his office for 7 years before discovering it contained a listening device.

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4X6lb TIL the NY City water supply system leaks up to 36 million gallons of water a day
1armX TIL Soul Asylum’s 1994 music video for "Runaway Train" helped find 25 of the 36 missing children featured in the music video.
R7A6l TIL The Rubber Room is a teacher jail in NY State where bad teachers who can’t be fired are sent to sit, do nothing, and still get paid.
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VLj0 TIL in 1919 Winston Churchill wrote “I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes.” He was referring to the war in Mesopotamia