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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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X0wQD TIL President Millard Fillmore taught elementary school while clerking for a county judge, and he also married his own beloved teacher, Abigail Powers
R7k64 TIL The Vatican recognizes the 1982 apparition of the Virgin Mary in Rwanda, where she appeared to three young girls and foretold of the blood and horror of the 1994 genocide. The girls said they spent countless hours in conversations with Mary, who called herself Nyina wa Jambo, Mother of the Word
ZB0Q TIL that Japanese actor Toshiro Mifune turned down playing Obi-Wan Kenobi and Darth Vader, because he thought it cheapen the image of the samurai.
evoJ TIL that John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men was originally titled “Something That Happened”
78J8r TIL King Henry VIII of England hired four men who regularly checked his faeces, monitored his bowel movements and wiped his bottom. They were appropriately called ‘Grooms of the King’s Stool’ and all of them were eventually knighted.