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TIL British spies stopped using semen as invisible ink because it began to smell if it wasn’t fresh.

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RRE1 TIL that the American Gothic painting by Grant Wood is not husband/wife, but father/daughter.
O1QR TIL Rowan Atkinson suffers from a stammer, so he uses over-articulation as a technique to overcome problematic consonants (like ‘B’).
GYyVN TIL the Comstock act of 1873 labeled contraceptives obscene and carried a $5000 fine or 5 years hard labor for sending information about or contraceptives thru the mail. Abortifacients, obscenity (which includes poopies), sex toys or information concerning topics were included in the patent act.
jNojX TIL the worst rated sitcom of all time is "My Mother the Car" about a man's mother who is reincarnated as a car and speaks to him through the radio
Z1Vv TIL: In 2007 a meteorite impacted near the village Carancas (Peru) leaving a 14 m crater and knocked a guy from his bicycle. Later, villagers and livestock got ill from poisonous material vaporizing from its surface.