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TIL of Markus Wolf, the head of the East German foreign intelligence division. He was the Stasi’s number two man for 34 years and yet the West didn’t know what he looked like until 1978.

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MKjK TIL Neil deGrasse Tyson won a gold medal with the University of Texas dance team at a national tournament in the International Latin Ballroom style in 1985.
M7MWK TIL of the Vai syllabary, a script used for writing the Vai language of Liberia. It is hypothesized to be based off the Cherokee script, used by the Indigenous Cherokee people in modern day South Eastern United States, and diffused from Cherokee migrants on the Liberian coast.
5pyQ TIL: President Nixon’s daughter married President Eisenhower’s grandson.
gQk7 TIL Flea from Red Hot Chili Peppers is a beekeeper with over 200,000 insects
16pZP TIL why all clocks go clockwise. In Medieval times, the sun-dials used as clocks in Northern Hemisphere used to trace clockwise. Early timepieces were made to mimic this motion. This, however, became such a norm that we started describing rotational motion in 2D as "clock"wise and counter"clock"wise