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TIL that Timothy Geithner updated his signature in order to make it more legible on U.S. currency

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oeJA TIL that in 1941, a British physicist guessed the major technical specifications of a Nazi bomber radio guidance system based solely on its code name, “Wotan”, and created effective countermeasures before it was even deployed.
bLK0 TIL crows are smart as great apes and able to show: imagination, the anticipation of possible future events, to solve problems which require abstract reasoning. Problems which once were only thought possible by humans and great apes.
4E05 TIL that a gay Communist American was kicked out of his party for being gay, and later kicked out of a gay rights group for being a Communist.
ADxln TIL that Berkeley's football stadium lies directly on a fault line and into a mountain, causing its walls to visibly separate due to tectonic shifts.
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