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TIL The Secret Service runs an extensive “ink library” that houses samples of nearly every kind of ink that has been manufactured in the past century.

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vZO7 TIL that in 1976 as a show of force after 2 marines were killed by North Korean guards wielding axes who crossed the DMZ, a joint US-South Korean army brigade invaded North Korea in overwhelming force, only to cut down a tree and leave.
6yGZ TIL that German brothers Adolph and Rudolph Dassler split up their father’s shoe company in to Puma and Adidas in 1948. This happened after Adi leaked information to Americans saying that his captured brother was a member of the SS.
j6yyE TIL A group of horses were trained to communicate whether they wanted a jacket. All horses in the group successfully communicated that they did want a jacket when it was cold and did not want a jacket when it was hot.
XEQY6 TIL during the shooting of ”Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure” Keanu Reeves asked George Carlin for an autograph. Carlin simply wrote ”Dear Keanu, f*ck you”
e0Gwg TIL of the 1980 book "Michelle Remembers", which sold millions of copies and spurred the Satanic panic of that era. Oprah even had the two authors on her show and presented their accounts of satanic abuse as pure fact. The book was later discredited.