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TIL Intelligence officers often use the acronym MICE to describe the four main motives for spying: Money, Ideology, Compromise, Ego

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9YYND TIL Chinese leader Mao had relations with a 14 year old girl and the girl’s father tried to write an outraged letter to him after learning about it. But the post office brought the letter back and warned that insulting the Chairman could lead to extreme retribution or death
N7jW8 TIL In the U.S, the different colors of twist ties on the bread bags indicate what day of the week the bread was baked.
WkLdo TIL when John Connally died in 1993, there was a petition to recover the fragments of the bullet that hit him in Kennedy's assassination, hoping to disprove the single bullet theory. Department of justice replied that it would approve if Connally's family gave permission, which they refused to give.
O5O7 TIL there are three power grids covering the United States. One for the west, one for the east, and one for Texas. Texas has its own in an attempt to maintain its freedom from federal regulation.
b9mRZ TIL the canyon where R2-D2 was attacked by Jawas is the same place where the Ark of the Covenant was opened in Raiders of the Lost Ark.