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TIL the daughter of Pakistan's ex PM used Typeface Calibri font to forge documents about illegal offshore companies. The documents were purportedly created in 2006. However, the font wasn’t publicly available to computer users worldwide until 2007.

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VX0k TIL that besides the USA only 1 other nation has ever built a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, France.
xVE65 TIL President James Buchanan regularly used to buy slaves in Washington, D.C. and quietly freed them in Pennsylvania
R5lna TIL: Marmite, the famous yeast spread has a crazy long shelf. You could eat Marmite that was made in 1945, and it would be protected. Its flavor would have changed. However, it would, in any case, taste great.
R755a TIL there was once a city within the city of Hong Kong that was largely ungoverned and had a population density of 1,255,000 people per square km.
RPVQ TIL that before air-dropped bombs were used in WWI, solid-cast darts called Flechettes were dropped in large batches from British and French planes over enemy trenches, which were capable of piercing helmets and skulls