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TIL Pad thai was mostlikely invented in the 20th century and was promoted by the Thai government as a way to save on rice following the Second World War. Pad thai has since gone on to be a national dish of Thailand.

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1aYe8 TIL the first computer password was stolen in 1961 by a PhD candidate named named Allan Scherr. He stole it from his colleague, Fernando Corbató, who invented computer passwords in 1960. Scherr stole the password because he wanted more time on the computer.
xVZnw TIL That of the 50 destroyers transferred to the UK and Canada in the 1940 "Destroyers for Bases" deal, 9 were later loaned to the Soviet Union. Of these 9 the USS Herndon (DD-198), commissioned as HMS Churchill (I-45) in 1940; and transferred to Russia as Dyatelnyi in 1944 was the only one sunk.
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