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TIL the history of country dail code dates back to 1960 published as the Red Book. In 1964 Red became Blue, and the world was divided into zones. World Zone 1 was NA, Zone 2 was Africa, Europe 3 and 4.

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j6nkv TIL In 1969 a Red Army deserter fired multiple shots at a motorcade carrying Leonid Brezhnev and several Cosmonauts. While the assassination attempt was unsuccessful, an official statement wasn't released for several days. Many details were suppressed until years afterwards.
nkp7 TIL that in 131 AD the Jews revolted against Rome for the second time in fifty years. The Emperor Hadrian put down the revolt. He slaughtered 580,000 Jews and sold the remnants into slavery, starting a diaspora that would not be reversed for roughly 1800 years.
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ne4JW TIL that in 2010, a guy placed a $200 million stock exchange order that would pay off if the markets dropped. Automated trading programs overreacted, briefly crashing the markets by 10%. He then bought a bunch of stock cheap, profiting $40 million. He was identified and arrested in 2015.