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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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vaOr TIL that strawberries are not berries, but bananas are.
jNdMM TIL that when a town bully & criminal kept getting away with his crimes, the town took matters into their own hands. He was shot dead in front of 40+ people but everybody claimed they saw nothing. Nobody was ever charged.
ep8gn TIL that by the late 1500s, Japan’s samurai were using guns at a scale that exceeded the total gun ownership of any European country.
veGj TIL that Nobel Prize-winning biochemist Kary Mullis stated that his LSD use greatly helped him develop the polymerase chain reaction, a commonly used technique in molecular biology.
GpLQ TIL that according to wikipedia there are plans for a sequel to “This is the End” in which the apocalypse occurs at the premiere of “This Is the End”