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TIL The head of MI6’s Anti-Communist Section (IX) in 1944, was actually a Communist passing information on to Moscow.

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Br0Jr TIL that the Anthropologist Ursula G. Bower (aka "Jungle Queen") led the Naga Headhunters into battle against the Imperial Japanese Army during WW2. Her weapons of choice were twin 9mm Sten SMGs. She was so effective, that the Japanese put a bounty on her. Nobody collected.
L5MP TIL in 1988, Mark Wahlberg assaulted two Vietnamese men, knocking one man unconscious and permanently blinding the other, calling them “slant-eyed gooks”. He ended up serving 45 days for the crime.
0wmxN TIL babies in every country say "mama"
JR7k TIL it isn’t the first time a Mayan calender has ended. In fact it has happened on September 18, 1618, after which a new calender began.
nKRW TIL there’s a building in Toronto that has its windows coated with 24 karat gold leaf, worth over $1,000,000.