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TIL that loose lips did not sink ships: "There’s no evidence of shipping losses due to talkative civilians during World War II."

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v1bQr TIL that on Halloween 1989, a K-Mart employee in Florida chased down a shoplifter while dressed as Batman. He had been trying his costume on for a Halloween party that night when the shoplifter struck. He recovered four cartons of cigarettes and two videocassettes.
O4oX TIL Louis Armstrong asked Richard Nixon to carry his bags through customs for him because he ‘was an old man’. The bags had marijuana in them.
jRDR TIL in 1970 a protest group broke into a draft board office by slipping in during the day and taping a note on the door: “Please don’t lock this door tonight.” They returned that night to find that the staff had obediently left the office open.
4XDo TIL Coca Cola had to recall a $200,000 campaign because the artist hid a blowjob image in the poster
agQy TIL that the actress Betty White is, in fact, older than sliced bread.