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TIL some radar detectors use radar detector detector detectors to detect radar detector detectors to prevent detection

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W7Nbo TIL that the archangel Gabriel is patron saint of stamp collectors, radio broadcasters, telecommunication workers, and postal workers.
p1a4 TIL that by 1937, Experts ‘no longer used the term “genius” as an IQ classification…In 1939, David Wechsler specifically commented that “we are rather hesitant about calling a person a genius on the basis of a single intelligence test score”.’
j4BX TIL One million working-age men died due to the economic shock of mass privatisation policies following the break up of the Soviet Union.
Vby0 TIL: During World War II, the British took a dead, homeless man out of the morgue, dressed him up as a high ranking military officer, and threw his body overboard off the coast of Spain. It was intended to mislead the Nazi’s about possible landing points for future invasions.
gM1w9 TIL that Michael Jackson used to prank call Russell Crowe for years.