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TIL Lisbon is the oldest city in Western Europe

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gMmN4 TIL under Director J. Edgar Hoover, FBI agents were directed to seize all pornographic materials uncovered in their investigations and forward them to Hoover personally. He reportedly used them for his own titillation and as blackmail.
vpYj TIL there is a pen that lets you write with any liquid you want as ink
5VVd8 TIL that a farmer from New Zealand named Kotahi-Manawa Bradford was accidentally turned into a character for the board game Rising Sun after his friends created a fake Wikipedia entry describing him as a mythical Japanese monster.
BgQaK TIL of “Explosion,” a dog given to a radio crew stationed on Kiska in the Aleutians by a departing soldier. The IJN subsequently invaded the island and captured the radio-men, but Explosion survived 15 months in the mountains and was reunited with his original owner during the US counter-invasion.
6o7w TIL that during WWII Croatian fascists used a type of knife literally called a “Serb cutter” in order to faster kill prisoners in concentration camps with guards holding contests to see who could kill the most inmates in one day, the record being 1,360 during one night