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TIL the original cast of Jackass included a female cast member but she was brutally injured during a stunt and left the group

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e0Kw4 TIL the British government accidentally published classified information about their nuclear submarines in a "redacted" report. The classified information had been "blacked out" in the document, but anyone who opened the document could copy and paste the "blacked-out" text in order to read it.
GYbLQ TIL that Candy Land was created due to the polio epidemic. Eleanor Abbott, a victim of the disease, created it for children to play while they were recuperating.
WkXjd TIL that hundreds of US agents during the cold war were caught due to their fake soviet passports. It was later discovered that the staples used in these forged passports were stainless-steel, unlike the soviet ones which corroded very easily.
gMMw4 TIL future U.S. President Grover Cleveland personally hanged two people (in 1872 and 1873) while serving as Sheriff of Erie County, New York.
p8M7O TIL Al Pacino improvised the look of his character Big Boy Caprice in 1990's Dick Tracy