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TIL - Govt spends billions on subsidies to tobacco farmers, at the same time spending billions on anti-smoking campaigns

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MeOma TIL a British double agent codenamed “Zigzag” volunteered to blow up Adolf Hitler in a suicide mission, but was rejected by MI5
p8DZA TIL in the 1970s food advertising started moving, which is why we see all the fancy tricks: shrimp doing flips, apples sliced in mid air, lobster claws cracking in slow-motion, french fries bouncing across a table. Because of Elbert Budin.
p5oQ TIL a sailor who wishes to grow a beard in the Royal Navy has to submit a ‘permission to stop shaving’ form. He is then allowed two weeks to ‘grow a full set’ before he presents himself to the Master at Arms who will decide if his beard looks stupid or is respectably full enough to be permitted.
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loggK TIL of Kingo Nonaka, the "Mexican Samurai" that served in the Mexican Revolution and healed Fransisco Madero during the battle of Casas Grandes