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TIL when Robert Bork was nominated to the Supreme Court, his rental history was leaked to the press. Bork himself had stated that Americans only had privacy rights as afforded them by direct legislation. The incident led to the enactment of the 1988 Video Privacy Protection Act.

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4Xx6X TIL Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife were assassinated on June 28th 1914, an event which led to the beginning of the war. Strangely, the Archduke's number plate read: A 111 118, a series that can be read as, Armistice 11 November '18.
yENJ TIL from watching NatGeo and talking to my ex-Air Force grandfather that Area-51 was created and operated primarily for the eventual construction of the SR-71 Blackbird, and that aliens and UFO’s were just the workers trolling people who asked questions.
K4g6 TIL when Seal Team Six was founded, there were only two other Seal teams. Richard Marcinko purportedly named the unit SEAL Team Six in order to confuse other nations, specifically the Soviet Union, into believing that the United States had at least three other SEAL teams that they were unaware of.
dNVB TIL in 1984, the then-Baltimore Colts were moved to Indianapolis in secret in the middle of the night, with 15 moving trucks taking different routes to avoid being seized by the State of Maryland under eminent domain.
5YkmQ TIL Telfar Clemens, the owner of the Telfar clothing brand, redesigned the uniforms for the White Castle fast food chain and dedicated the earnings to bailing out youths from Ryker's Island prison.