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TIL Robin Williams was the one who suggested that Sid Meier‘s name should be put on each of his games

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XVbR TIL Meredith Gardner, a codebreaker was able to work out that more than 200 American citizens were Soviet agents between 1930 and 1945. One of the spies was William Weisband, who was one of Gardner colleagues on the project, and had told the Soviets as soon as the code was broken.
l7v0A TIL about James Wilkinson, the ranking general of the US Army twice for 14 years in the 1800's and the first governor of the Louisiana Territory was actually a spy for the Spanish Empire who repeatedly tried to conspire against his superiors to create a separatist settler state
bEdQ TIL that when when a man named Larry Rutman threw a boomerang and hit himself in the head, he sued himself for $300,000, and surprisingly won, with all the money coming from his insurance.
9w546 TIL "quiet storm" is a genre of R&B from the 1970s to the 1990s described as melodically soulful, sensuous and pensive, and designed for late-night listening.
ADDKB TIL that Ted Kaczynski got the codename "UNABOMBER" because his bombings targeted Universities "UN" and Airlines "A"