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TIL in 2005 a heavily censored document from the Pentagon was declassified when a reader cut and pasted the text into word, making the censored parts visible.

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A9Po TIL The United States hasn’t had a period of peace since WWII
epgL TIL Earl of Oxford, who bowed to the first Queen Elizabeth and accidentally farted. Overcome with shame he vanished and spent seven years traveling. On his return, the queen greeted him with: “My Lord, I had forgott the Fart.”
R5w1j TIL that the Vietnamese version of Cinderella, the end has Ciderella boil her stepsister to death, turns what remains of her into sauce and sends it to her stepmother to eat. She enjoyed it so much that she ate it all until she found the skull and died of shock.
epndE TIL about de Clérambault's Syndrome, a disorder where someone has delusions of another person being infatuated with them. One case involved a woman who believed King George V of England was communicating his love for her by moving the curtains at Buckingham Palace.
E1wvV TIL about a YouTube microcommunity of people who have their own VHS video stores built in their basements. Some even have cash registers and candy/popcorn displays.