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TIL That Germany created a rifle with a curved barrel during World War II attached with a periscope to shoot around corners from a safe position.

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R7JW1 TIL in 1978, The House Select Committee on Assassinations reported John F. Kennedy's brain is missing. During the autopsy, his brain was removed and placed in a stainless steel box given to the Secret Service. The box was moved to the National Archives building in 1965. As of 1966, it was gone.
kJP67 TIL the FBI and other countries set up a fake "secure" messaging app to monitor criminal communication which led to multiple arrests globally
MRpB TIL the pilot of Gemini 3, John Young, was reprimanded for smuggling a corned beef sandwich onto the spacecraft.
dDKK8 TIL that the original job of the coroner was to collect the revenues of the English Crown - legal fines, buried treasure, shipwrecks, and the like. This included the seized estates of suicide victims and murderers, and over time the office of coroner evolved into the modern function.
wLVx6 TIL that, in order to evade taxes, "Hollywood accounting" is so egregious that the Lord of the Rings trilogy "made horrendous losses and no profit at all"