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TIL Pistachio used to by dyed red so they looked more appetizing

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x6mW5 TIL Historically, caltrops were part of defences that served to slow the advance of troops and in the modern era have been used by protesters during labor disputes
nWjPW TIL of a Spokane fraudster who ran a car accident insurance fraud scheme that involved many conspirators. He would fake car crashes that involved ramming the cars himself, inflicting injuries on selected fake victims, with them even carrying bottles of urine to pour over themselves for the act.
BjML TIL there is a Cyrillic letter so rare it is only used in the phrase “many-eyed Seraphim”
PraE TIL that it is impossible for a centipede to have 100 legs. They have one pair of legs per body segment, but always an odd number of body segments, allowing for 98 and 102 legs, but not 100.
Yr5v TIL of Manfred Ramminger. A KGB Agent who walked into a Nato base, stole a Sidewinder missle, loaded it into his mercedes, drove it home and than shipped it by Mail to Moscow