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TIL Rolex is a non-profit organization that isn’t required to disclose earnings or pay taxes 😏

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LkdYd TIL of Oleg Gordievsky, a KGB/MI6 double agent. If he required MI6 rescue, he was to stand on a street corner in Moscow at 730pm on a Tuesday holding a safeway bag, wearing a grey cap. MI6 would acknowledge by walking past him eating a chocolate bar. MI6 monitored this street corner for 10 years.
kNQ1 TIL The U.S. is still using floppy disks to run its nuclear program
vRvR TIL Australia has a tree so toxic that just touching its leaves can kill a person, or even a horse
9pZ6 TIL men in switzerland are required to keep the firearms they are issued during military service at home after they leave the military so as to prevent home break ins and have the countries men ready to mobilize in the event of a threat.
nejAP TIL Leonardo da Vinci's Anatomical Studies Were Completely Illegal