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TIL: Agent 355 is one of the first female spies for the US. She was active during the Revolution, but her identity remained secret. There is ongoing speculation whether she existed at all. However, many assert she was real.

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vPaOL TIL That the first FPS game to have mouse aiming was Bungie's Mac Exclusive - 'Marathon' (1994)
PY1yZ TIL that smoking killed more people in the 20th century than both world wars combined.
YJVv TIL Andrew Jackson was the only U.S. President in American history to pay off the national debt
AD8Dl TIL of Edward Jones, a teenager who broke into Buckingham Palace multiple times in 1838-1841. The first time he was only 14-years-old and managed to steal some of Queen Victoria’s underwear.
J1PK8 TIL in the 1971 movie Duel, directed by Spielberg, the same truck was used in all the scenes and the the dramatic destruction at the end had to be filmed in a single shot since they didn’t have a backup truck