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TIL … that fake poop has been a favored espionage tool.

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048L TIL that President Jimmy Carter accidentally sent his nuclear launch codes to the dry cleaners
pmKb TIL that 70 scientists working on the Manhattan Project signed a petition calling for a demonstration of the atomic bomb to be held with Japanese officials present. It never reached President Truman.
BgeAW TIL Marilyn Monroe was actually Jewish, converting after marriage.
KOYl4 In this episode of Today I Learned, National Geographic Emerging Explorer Thomas Taha Rassam Culhane introduces the Zabaleen and explains how they’ve built a way of life around Cairo’s garbage.
R5B4a TIL that Francis Galton made a ranking system of UK women and how appealing he found them, with those from Aberdeen deemed the least attractive.