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TIL that downtown Milwaukee has a strip club called “Art’s Performing Center” located right next to the “Performing Arts Center”

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ADEPx TIL in 1959 Alfred Hitchcock was approached to direct the first James Bond movie. However, he did not want to make another spy thriller right after "North by Northwest", and instead started working on "Psycho".
yV5VJ TIL that the CIA hired a magician named John Mulholland in the 1950s to write a "magic book" for spies. The manual explained how spies could use skills like sleight of hand to poison an enemy's drink, or to steal documents. Mulholland was also employed by the CIA to explore paranormal activities.
V9wp TIL that after London 2012, Royal Mail repainted postboxes gold in the hometowns of medal winners.
a6nN TIL that prior to 1970 keyboards did not have an “!” To type it you had to hit “period, backspace, apostrophe”
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.