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TIL that before escaping prison, Winston Churchill left a letter of apology on his bed. The letter began: “I have the honour to inform you that as I do not consider that your Government have any right to detain me as a military prisoner, I have decided to escape from your custody.”

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0AQ1 TIL that students are paid $1500 a month to study in the most prestigious engineering school in France : École Polytechnique
M7ORA TIL about the Doppler On Wheels network where mobile Doppler radar trucks are used to collect data in snowstorms, in hurricanes, close to tornadoes, and other severe weather events
L1PV TIL the “Immortal German Alchemist”, The Count St. Germain was said to never have appeared over the age of 40 in his some 100 year documented activity in Europe and had ties to the Rosicrucians, Knights Templar, Illuminati, Freemasons, and the Order of the Golden Fleece.
DbJp TIL Christopher Wolfram (one of the people responsible for Wolfram Alpha) has helped creating the heptapod language we saw on the movie “The arrival”
R5kN8 TIL about the Zimmermann Telegram, a secret diplomatic communication issued from the German Foreign Office in January 1917 that proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico if the USA entered World War I against Germany. The telegram was intercepted by British intelligence.