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TIL the Pentagon has twice as many toilets than it would have had if it were built today, due to being built in a time of segregation

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Wkpoo TIL of Hannah Szenes, a Jewish parachutist dropped by the British into Yugoslavia during WWII to help rescue Hungarian Jews about to be deported to Auschwitz. Arrested, imprisoned and tortured, she refused to reveal details of her mission or her transmitter code. She was eventually executed.
olJr TIL that during WWII, British intelligence leaked falsified information implying that V-2 rockets were overshooting London by 10 to 20 miles, which made the Germans undershoot and miss London for the rest of the war.
R5Rl8 TIL Limerick, Ireland is the only place in the world with the orginal KFC recipe because Pat Grace who owns Chicken Hut was best friends with Colonel Sanders, and Sanders passed on the recipe to Grace before he died.
7Mop TIL a prison inmate, Eugene Debs, received nearly one million votes during the 1920 presidential election. He was serving 10 years for a speech he gave in Ohio.
jrwX TIL FPSRussia’s house was once raided by 40 plus ATF and FBI agents.