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TIL MI6 thought a report submitted by a false agent regarding the Iraqi Chemical Weapons Program was legitimate, until they realized it bore a striking resemblance to aspects of the movie "The Rock"

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b7M9 TIL Albert Einstein died after refusing surgery, saying:“I want to go when I want. It is tasteless to prolong life artificially. I have done my share, it is time to go. I will do it elegantly.”
mxGPM TIL arguably the most dangerous stretch of water in the world is an unassuming looking river in Yorkshire, England.
dJa8 TIL the US education system is ranked 14th best in the world. Just behind Russia.
J1dr4 TIL that the first bees emerged over 120 million years ago, surviving the dinasour wipe out. It is revealed in a recent study in Current Biology. Surprisingly, bees diversified and spread much faster than previously believed.
W7GVL TIL in a private letter from 1521, Niccolo Machiavelli describes reading his mail in the toilet seat. Stuck on a boring work trip, he proceeds to ask his pen pal to send him fat folders stuffed with papers and make the mailman run, to prank the nosey monks who tried to pry at his letters