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TIL that the US military briefly investigated the Journal of Irreproducible Results, a comedic publication satirizing academia, after finding their joke article on how to build a nuclear bomb filed away at the abandoned Al Qaeda headquarters in Kabul, Afghanistan.

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4oB5 TIL that when Frederick the Great banned coffee in Prussia in 1777, saying beer was superior for “breakfast drinking,” people started drinking a coffee substitute called “Muckefuck.”
lO9B TIL that the Huns had no writing system, and thus all records of them were written by their enemies – who universally describe them as nearly monstrous in appearance, speech, and behavior.
DLJD TIL the oldest unbroken alliance in the world is between England and Portugal dating back to 1373
1aNkV TIL that ancient greek males were not ashamed of exposing their entire genitalia, only the glans. This led to the habit of covering it up with the foreskin using a special knot called "kynodesme", or dog tie.
ADdk7 TIL much of the filming for Malcolm in the Middle was done on location in various parts of Los Angeles. A privately owned home was rented for upwards of $3,000 a day to film as Malcolm's house.