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TIL That a Hard Drive’s data can be viewed with a proper Microscope

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EVvW TIL that due to having similar names, the staff of the Slovak and Slovenian embassies meet at least once a month to exchange wrongly addressed mail
1myD TIL frustrated book publishers convinced the New York Times to add a children’s category to their Bestselling book list due to Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone holding the #1 spot for 2 years
R5okQ TIL The Journal of Forensic Sciences looked at 400 movies and 126 fictional villains and concluded “No Country for Old Men”Anton Chigurh as the most realistic villain
mxPJP TIL That King County, Washington, home of Seattle, has a logo that's MLK Jr's face with the county's name underneath
neEe7 TIL 11,000 women were breaking Nazi codes in America during WWII. Among them was Elizebeth Friedman who cracked at least 3 Enigma machines and dozens of different radio circuits to decipher more than 4,000 Nazi messages saving millions of lives. J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI took credit for it.