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TIL Polish jokes were strategically used by the Nazis to justify war crimes against Poland.

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5gJp TIL that the Bald Eagle was removed from the List of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife in 2007. It is now under the “Least Concern” category of endangerment.
rRd8W TIL of Clifford Stoll a sysadmin who’d tracked a $0.75 accounting error back to a an East German spy ring in one of the first documented cases of a computer break-in.
E7pw TIL in 1770 a man invented a machine that could play a strong game of chess against a human opponent. The “android” that played the game was nicknamed The Turk (as was the machine itself). It wasn’t until 1857 that it was revealed to be a hoax (a chess master was hiding in the machine).
16R47 TIL Japan is offering smiling classes because some people forgot how to do so during the pandemic
aGno TIL that Quentin Tarantino wants to stop making films when he is around 60 years old (he is currently 52) because he doesn’t want to “fuck up his filmography with a bunch of old-man stuff.”