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TIL: The only country who has successfully invoked NATO Article 5 is the USA after the attacks on September 11.

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78lnM TIL Michael Caine legally changed his name to Michael Caine to help get through airport security quicker. He would have to waste a lot of time proving that his legal name was Maurice Joseph Micklewhite.
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nemwP TIL of Virginia Hall, one of the most highly decorated spies in American history. Her small resistance team is credited with destroying four bridges, derailing dozens of freight trains, killing 150 German soldiers, and capturing another 300 enemy troops. She did all of this with a wooden leg.
8aK68 TIL Kareem Abdul-Jabber has written Sherlock Holmes novels and an episode of Veronica Mars
epDaJ TIL about Godwin's law that states that as an online discussion grows longer (regardless of topic or scope) the probability of a comparison to Nazis approaches.