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TIL Canadians coming back from Cornwall Island have to go through Canadian Border Services Agency, without ever having left Canada, because the road checkpoint is on the mainland and not on the island itself.

by whatilearned August 24, 2022, 9:47 pm

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TIL that the father of Stewart Copeland, a founding member of rock band The Police, was one of the founders of the US Central Intelligence Agency, Miles Copeland Jr.

by whatilearned August 16, 2022, 3:07 am

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TIL the Bureau of Engraving and Printing (child agency of the Treasury) offers free redemption for mutilated US currency

by whatilearned August 14, 2022, 3:05 pm

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What do you call a real estate agency opened by a detective?

by cringeyjokesman August 5, 2022, 3:11 pm

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TIL that the Alt-J album cover “An awesome wave” is a European Space Agency satellite image of the Ganges River Delta in Bangladesh and India and was found by the band when they searched for images related to the word “delta”, the triangle symbol for the band

by whatilearned July 8, 2022, 6:08 pm

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TIL that from 1968 to the early 1990s, the BVD (intelligency agency of the Netherlands) created the “Marxist–Leninist Party of the Netherlands”, a a fake pro-China communist party in set up to develop contacts with the Chinese government for espionage purposes. The fake party even had newspapers.

by whatilearned June 18, 2022, 2:32 am

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TIL the difference between news agencies (Reuters/AP) and news organizations (Fox/CNN). Agencies report and unbiasedly summarize news which organizations then buy and spin for their own audiences. So, if you want free, factual and unbiased reporting, you can just read reporting from an agency.

by whatilearned May 31, 2022, 5:02 am

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TIL that the Texas Rangers law enforcement agency, was constantly trying to shut down the Balinese Room nightclub on Galveston Island but their arrival would be tipped off by Balinese Room associates when the Rangers came down the bridge onto the island. The Rangers solved this by raiding by sea.

by whatilearned May 24, 2022, 1:09 am

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TIL the GEICO gecko’s name is Martin, named after The Martin Agency who created him in 1999.

by whatilearned March 14, 2022, 5:14 pm

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TIL about “job fishing” – setting up fake companies, making up fake employee profiles and hiring people for positions that don’t exist. Madbird is an example of the con that tricked dozens into working for a fake design agency

by whatilearned March 11, 2022, 9:38 am

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TIL “Ghostbusters” is considered by some to be a Libertarian critique of early-1980s NYC: a private entity provides a public service (ghost removal); obstructed by a government agency (EPA).

by whatilearned March 5, 2022, 8:51 pm

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TIL of XU, an intelligence agency that operated in Norway while it was occupied by the Nazis. Despite consisting of students at the University of Oslo and regular Norwegian workers, XU was able to survive being targeted by the Gestapo. The existence of XU was kept secret from the public till 1980.

by whatilearned February 2, 2022, 5:21 pm

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