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TIL that during the Cold War, the CIA could identify KGB cars in the Soviet Union because they used windscreen wipers compared to the rest of the public who didn’t. The KGB continued to use windscreen wipers to maintain a visual on their targets. Especially during bad weather. Link P219

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mxBJv TIL that fishballs were invented when China's first emperor demanded fish with every meal. He threatened to execute the chef if he found bones in his food. The chef mashed the fish to remove bones quicker, ran out of time, panicked, so he squeezed the fish paste into balls and threw it in some soup.
wZYM TIL The inspiration for Beavis was a straight A Student who had a similar laugh. He would laugh at everything his extremely hot teacher would say while biting his lip, and scribbling on paper.
PYagG TIL of the Harvard Jail House, which was put on sale by accident. Robert Pinckney bought the jailhouse for $1.50 and successfully sued the town for rent when they continued putting criminals in there. He then sold the place to Charlie McCarthy, a ventriloquist’s dummy, for $10,000 in war bonds.
6gaX TIL that it’s illegal for kids 16 and under in South Korea to play video games past midnight
6Aam TIL that Hugo Jaeger, one of Hitler’s personal photographers, took thousands of photographs, regularly in color film, during his time with the Fuhrer. He buried the photographs near Munich and didn’t show them to anyone until 1965, when he sold them to Life Magazine. In 2009 they were published.