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TIL that the Royal Air Force, in order to hide their success of identifying Luftwaffe bombers at night, made up a story about how carrots are good for eyesight. This was done so Germany wouldn’t know it was radar. A story told almost 80 years ago is why people still believe this myth today.

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5Y4n8 TIL about "The World's Most Identical" pair of twins, Lucy and Anna De Cinque, who share a boyfriend between them and plan to get pregnant by him at the same time
EQEp TIL in 2009 an NY cop was placed in a psychiatric facility by his fellow officers for releasing recordings he made that showed quotas were leading to police abuses such as wrongful arrests.
wLGAP TIL Karl Marx has a living great-great-grandson named Joseph Marx who does parkour for money outside of a McDonalds in Kingston, UK
LQoQ9 TIL after he died, all of Nikola Tesla's belongings were confiscated by the FBI
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