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TIL for almost 20 years, and against JFK’s orders, all US nuclear weapons were secured with the combination password of “0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0”

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EP0P TIL that when Fiat discovered a Google’s street view car was mapping Sodertalje, Sweden, they sent a Fiat to tail it for 30 miles, and have it captured on street view in front of Volkswagen’s headquarters.
wLxxY TIL Theodore Roosevelt was the first American to earn a brown belt in judo.
mx7RP TIL Don Featherstone, creator of the famous plastic Pink Garden Flamingo, also wore matching outfits with his wife every single day for 35 years
N7bPM TIL in 1959 a white man from Texas disguised himself as a black man and traveled for six weeks on greyhound buses. After publishing his experiences with racism he was forced to move to Mexico for several years due to death threats.
d86Jd TIL: The French drain may have been invented in France but Henry Flagg French described and popularized them in his 1859 book Farm Drainage