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TIL when he accepted the role of Scrooge in A Muppet Christmas Carol, Michael Caine said he wanted to play it, "like I'm working with the Royal Shakespeare Company," as if there were no puppets around him. On set, he had to walk across narrow planks between the Muppets and their performers.

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WkXjd TIL that hundreds of US agents during the cold war were caught due to their fake soviet passports. It was later discovered that the staples used in these forged passports were stainless-steel, unlike the soviet ones which corroded very easily.
E1d87 TIL that Hitler was a German intelligence agent after World War I. His first assignment was to infiltrate the German Worker's Party. Hitler quickly became the face of the party, and five months after the army ordered him to join, Hitler renamed it the National Socialist German Workers' Party.
6Ke8 TIL that if Massachusetts were a country, its students would rank 9th in the world at math, 4th in the world at reading, and 2nd in the world at science, behind only Singapore..
Z4jB TIL a 89 year old veteran developed a bladeless bird-friendly wind turbine in 2011
xVVYk An illustrated explanation of why the world's most obnoxious virus at least doesn't stick around all year.