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TIL British intelligence chiefs tried to guess Hitler’s plans by studying his horoscope.

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9YBOX TIL that the boson, which is often referred to in the U.S. popular media's the "god-particle" is named after Satyenda Nath Bose, who was not only a contemporary of Einstein, but was also his collaborator in developing Bose-Einstein statistics and the theory of the Bose-Einstein condensate.
M7GgB TIL that captured U2 pilot Francis Gary Powers was the last prisoner at the infamous KGB prison Lubyanka. Powers was tried and convicted by the Soviet authorities and was later traded for captured Soviet spy Col. Vilyam Fisher (a.k.a. Rudolf Abel).