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TIL That microfiche can last more than 500 years

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Lb9r TIL that members of the Russian Mafia would tattoo of Lenin, Marx, and Engels on their chest or vital organs because firing squads could not shoot images of USSR’s founding fathers.
Z8NWR TIL automobile industrialist Henry Ford was admired by Adolf Hitler for promoting anti-Semitic content, including The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, through his newspaper The Dearborn Independent, and the book The International Jew.
mDyO TIL Barbie’s original design was based on a German adult gag-gift prostitute doll named Lilli
P1QBJ TIL that "The Last Broadcast" a found footage horror movie predating the "Blair Witch Project" was estimated to be made for $1,000 or less and made $4 million at the box office.
M7eMm TIL about the U.S. military's "birth control glasses" which were a nickname for an unfortunate looking pair of issued glasses. The thick brown frames and shape were extremely unpopular and equated to birth control because of how unattractive they looked. The frames were retired in 2012.