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TIL wealthy Chinese criminals occasionally hire look-a-likes to serve their prison sentence

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XkDk TIL that The Fifth Element remains the most financially successful French film of all time.
VB5GZ TIL that the first computer virus, known as "Creeper," was an experimental program created in 1971. It displayed the message "I’m the creeper: Catch me if you can" and inadvertently led to the development of the first antivirus software, called "Reaper."
rNBGy TIL The NIDA deliberately mislead the public for years about the dangers of mdma by promoting retracted studies that used lethal doses of methamphetamine instead.
5obr TIL that the annexation of Crimea was predicted years before by diplomats, as revealed by Wikileaks in 2006 and 2011.
WkAd9 TIL of Justo Gallego, a Spanish man who's spend nearly the last 60 years building a cathedral by himself from materials he found in the area.