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TIL 'CQD' was the international distress symbol before 'SOS'

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KOJ TIL that a female Allied spy parachuting into France in WWII greeted her Resistance contact with “don’t give me that French shit” and proceeded to kill a German sentry with her bare hands.
WkEZN TIL in 2017, three infertile mice were able to give birth to healthy offspring after being implanted with artificial 3-D printed ovaries.
9YB9r TIL Elvis Presley (the King of Rock) and Michael Jackson (the King of Pop) met each other, and posthumously Elvis became Michael's father-in-law
78lYZ TIL Michel Fourmont, an antiquarian and French priest, enjoyed destroying antiquities and remnants of ancient Greek cities, including Sparta. Sent by Louis XV to find manuscripts, he turned to marble inscriptions which he defaced after copying them.
vPjAr TIL: Wearing glasses used to have a negative connotation as it relates to moneylenders. This led to Hitler refusing to be photographed in glasses. However, recently glasses make individuals seem smarter and defense attorneys have since used the "nerd defense" by making violent defendants wear them.