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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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GVD7 TIL Star Wars was originally about Mace Windu.
1aZ18 TIL about Joseph C. Rowell, who in 1894, established interlibrary loan (ILL) in the US. With ILL, you can go to your library and request and borrow (almost) any resource available for public circulation that is held in ANY library in the US, for little or no cost.
d8AKK TIL of Laika, the first dog to go into space. The satellite that transported Laika was never intended to return, and Laika died within hours of leaving Earth. The space mission sparked a debate across the globe on the mistreatment of animals and animal testing for scientific causes.
9w6Br TIL that some scholars believe Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa is a self portrait, with Da Vinci cross dressing
Anon TIL that Greenland is actually part of North America, is ruled by Denmark, and is icier than Iceland.