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TIL when Japanese ultranationalists and militaries attempted a coup in 1932 they intended to also kill Charlie Chaplin

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pYvOe TIL “Just Desserts” is a pun. The original phrase, “Just Deserts”, describes not desert climates but “moral deserts”—or, things which one morally deserves. “Desert” and “Deserve” share an old French root, but the word “desert” is very rarely used in this form in modern day.
kJGL7 TIL the CIA struggled to recruit candidates who had visible tattoos because such markings made agents easier to identify. This rule has been relaxed, but it once limited their ability to hire otherwise qualified applicants.
EKQV TIL The band “The Who” were banned for life from all Holiday Inns when Keith Moon started a food fight with a 5-tier cake, once the police arrived he stripped to his underwear, jumped into his car, drove it through a fence and left it in the bottom of the Flint Holiday Inn pool.
xVwkB TIL about the Military Entertainment Complex - a branch of the DoD that consults on movies and provides accurate equipment
oRVMR TIL Ferdinand Rudow was a German entomologist notable for the poor quality of his taxonomic work. Although he named almost 200 species of wasps, almost all of them have been synonymized with other species.