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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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1kkD TIL Betty Robinson, an Olympic runner, was involved in a plane crash in 1931 and was wrongly pronounced dead upon first being discovered. She spend 7 months in a coma and it took her 2 years to learn to walk normally again. In 1936, she returned to the US olympic team and won gold in the relay.
WkJkd TIL that after Nietzsche's death, his sister, Elizabeth reworked his unpublished writings to fit her own nationalist ideology, contradictory to Friedrich Nietzsche's opposition to antisemitism and nationalism.
kJbJ4 TIL in 2019 British artist Sam Cox bought a home, painted every surface white, and spent almost 2 years filling it with doodles. Halfway through, he was committed to a psychiatric ward, believing he had become the “Mr. Doodle” character he played.
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