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TIL that Kim Jong-Il’s birth name is Yuri Irsenovich

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9YN17 TIL from 1897-1953, the NYC Post Office moved some of its mail using an intricate system of underground pneumatic tubes that shot canisters at a speed of 35 mph. At its peak, the tube system carried close to 100,000 letters a day – about 30% of all the mail that was routed through the city.
PWpw TIL of three Duke lacrosse players being falsely accused of rape in 2006. Since then, the lead prosecutor has been disbarred, the accuser is in prison for second-degree murder, and the police supervisor commited suicide.
P18Vg TIL that during World War II, the Danish resistance movement smuggled the Jews out of Denmark before the Nazis could send them to the concentration camps, in part by going through telephone books and warning everyone with Jewish-sounding names to go into hiding.
GVQ TIL British Soldiers in Afghanistan taunt the Taliban via loud speakers so they will shoot and give away their position.
OGeZ1 TIL That Denzel Washington chose to cut an interracial kiss from his 1995 movie "Virtuosity" because he thought it would hurt the movie's box office.