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TIL: Israel’s history of selling USA’s secrets to China goes back to the 1980’s. China acquired advanced military tech & weapons from Israel then re-exported to Pakistan, Iran, etc. Also, Israeli military companies opened offices in China for sales. CIA said profit was “several billion dollars.”

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nWd97 TIL that before creating the children’s character Blippi, actor Stevin John made shock videos under the name Steezy Grossman. He later used DMCA takedown notices to remove a video in which he performed the Harlem Shake on a toilet before defecating on his naked friend.
jg1Q TIL in 2011, in response to employees’ complaints about work-life balance and the expectations of answering after-hours email from home, Volkswagen agreed to implement a rule restricting company email functionality on the firm’s BlackBerry smartphones from 6:30pm-7:30am.
YrKx TIL Queen Elizabeth and her husband Prince Phillip are 3rd cousins, 2nd cousins and are the great-great grandkinds of Queen Victoria. Because of this, Phillip himself is in the line of succession to the throne though about 490 people would have to die for him to become King in his own right
0wKWA TIL: Hilter sent a secret expedition to Antarctica for Whale fat to make margarine as part of the “German Fat Plan”
neOWo TIL rubbing alcohol makes open wounds sting because it lowers the temperature threshold of heat-detecting VR1 receptors--so much so that your own body heat triggers a burning sensation