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TIL a SIGNIFICANT portion of Chumbawamba’s discography is sociopolitical folk music

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BrKnL TIL Ancient Roman spies used urine as invisible ink to write secrets between the lines of their official documents, hence the saying: "read between the lines." The messages appeared only when heated.
xVGob TIL Kim Jong-nam's murderers thought they were taking part in a TV pranking show by wiping baby lotion on his face. The lotion contained a highly toxic VX nerve agent, they had no idea.
yBap TIL the Polish Beer-Lovers’ Party (PPPP) won 16 seats in the Sejm with 2.97% of the vote in the first free parliamentary elections in 1991, before disintegrating into Large Beer and Small Beer factions despite party president Rewiński’s claims that “beer is neither light nor dark, it is tasty.”
D1AZp TIL the Arizona Gazette ran a front page article in 1909 on two "Smithsonian-funded archaeologists" who discovered a massive underground cave city beneath the Grand Canyon. The city allegedly contained Egyptian hieroglyphics, mummies, and a Buddha-like statue. The Smithsonian refutes the claims.
yVN0X TIL: In 1967, Mad Magazine printed a fake $3 bill. Unfortunately, change machines were just beginning to be installed and did not recognize the bills as fake and gave out real change for the phony bills.