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TIL that the Japanese invaded India during WWII

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160rW TIL in the late '70s and early '80s, the Soviets "bugged" IBM Selectric II typewriters in the US Embassy in Moscow so they would report what the Americans were typing by radio. We only found out when a friendly country's embassy told us it had happened to their typewriters.
Y7V7B Today I learned that the composer of Pennsylvania 6-5000, Glenn Miller died because his plane disappeared. He was flying from England to France and was never seen again. The mystery is left unsolved
VBOK4 TIL Mercedes Benz, the flagship car brand of the Nazis, was named after a Jewish girl, who's grandfather was a well regarded rabbi and intellectual in the Jewish community in Vienna.
6j1l TIL 30% of one night stands actually turn into long-term relationships.
kJoyg TIL a Gameboy was stored in a barracks that was bombed in The Gulf War and it ran Tetris like nothing happened.