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TIL Possession of the Anarchist Cookbook is illegal in the UK and they've sent young men to jail for years over it.

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b60Aa TIL about Toto Koopman, a Dutch-Indonesian model who worked as a spy for the Dutch Resistance in WWII, escaped imprisonment several times, pretended to be a nurse and forged papers to rescue women from the gas chamber and later became an archaeologist as well as found an influential art gallery.
wodmo TIL People with B blood type tend to be resistant to most Norovirus strains
m1kjx TIL In 1991 both former Senator John Tower of Texas (head of the Tower Commission for the Iran–Contra affair) and astronaut Manley "Sonny" Carter died in the same commuter plane crash in Georgia.
L1a0 TIL The Ottoman Empire was still in existence the last time the Chicago Cubs won the World Series.
LkJRQ TIL that Homo erectus stood about 1.79m (5'10"). Only 17% of modern male humans are taller - Their fossils were the oldest known early humans to have possessed modern human-like body proportions. And they are the longest lived human species around 9 times as long as our own species H.Sapiens.