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TIL that 55 million years ago the North Pole had the climate of today's Miami

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Y7gm7 TIL that there are nation states that are actively collecting our encrypted files and storing them to be able to decrypt them once quantum computing gets to the point to break today’s encryption known as Store Now Decrypt Later - SNDL. This scares the bejeezus out of me
dPQ9 TIL that the SS officer who arrested Anne Frank and the other inhabitants of the secret annex later bought her book to see if he was in it. (He wasn’t.)
R7nmQ TIL that when Robert Ballard asked the Navy to fund his search for the Titanic, they told him to secretly survey two sunken US nuclear subs first, to keep the USSR in the dark. After the covert mission was done, Ballard's team had only 12 days to find the Titanic.
nWV8o TIL Today, there are an estimated 12 million children struggling with hunger in America.
eWnE TIL in the early 1800s the British adopted the Nine Principle of Ethical Policing, under which “Police, at all times, should maintain a relationship with the public that gives reality to the historic tradition that the police are the public and the public are the police.“ They also don’t carry guns.