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TIL that American Spies in the Cold War were caught due to their counterfeit passports being made with better staples.

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OpZg TIL the University of Texas sniper, Charles Whitman, who killed 15 people from a tower in 1966, sought psychiatric help on multiple occasions in the months before his murder spree. He asked in a note that his brain be examined after his death to find what was wrong. A brain tumor was indeed found.
p86Ze TIL: Florida Governor, Ron DeSantis, has a BA (History) from Yale, JD from Harvard in 2005.
bLG9 TIL the insecticide"BTI" was discovered when a man stumbled upon a stagnate pond in Israel where he noticed dead mosquito larvae. Scientists isolated the bacteria strain found in pond, creating the safest and most effective way of managing and killing mosquito populations throughout the world.
db9d TIL the first actor for the alcoholic Waco Kid in Blazing Saddles lost the role because he was an alcoholic
Z9Po TIL in Pirates of the Carribean: Dead Man’s Chest none of the actors knew that Geoffrey Rush would reprise his role as ‘Captain Barbossa’ so the look on their faces when he appears are their faces of shock of not seeing Rush for 3 years.