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TIL of the Duplessis Orphans, a scam run by the premier of Quebec in the 40s and 50s to wrongly confine thousands of children in psychiatric hospitals in order to gain payouts from the Canadian government.

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r8wx TIL that an American POW in Vietnam blinked the morse code for TORTURE during a propaganda interview.
N7Pmb TIL despite being over 25 years old, the musical instrument digital interface, MIDI, is still on version 1.0! A testament to good design.
xlrg TIL during WWII, British forces dressed a dead hobo in a general’s uniform and planted “top secret documents” on his body, detailing a fictional invasion through Greece. They then caused the body to wash up on an Italian beach, in an attempt to mislead German high command. It worked.
5VwdR TIL about Ohalo II. A 23,000 year old upper paleolithic settlement with the earliest evidence of brushwood huts/dwellings and of plant cultivation.
Op6e TIL Nancy Astor was the first female MP in the UK, and is known for her “poison tea” exchange with Churchill, but had some lesser known retorts of her own including telling Churchill-who asked how he could possibly appear in disguise at a masquerade-“Why don’t you come sober?”