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TIL that dictator Suharto created a forced monopoly on cloves to enrich his son Tommy, who paid clove farmers well below market rate. That company somehow went broke, so Suharto forced state banks to loan $300 million to his son.

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LkAmp TIL Goldfish could grow up to 18 inches spacious conditions but for the fact they are kept in bowls which restricts growth. They are not small fish.
Rlaa TIL Some people do not have wisdom teeth because of a random mutation that occurred thousands of years ago.
KOQwR TIL when Spartans lost the battle of Megalopolis, their king Agis III, now wounded and unable to stand, ordered his men to leave him behind to face Macedonian army so that he could buy his men time to retreat. He slew several enemy soldiers before being finally killed by a javelin.
d8l0B TIL that Ostracism, intentionally excluding people, is derived from the Ancient Greek practice of temporarily expelling citizens they thought were a threat to society. Voters would scratch the name of the person to be expelled on broken pieces of pottery, called in Ancient Greek, "ostrakon."
8eLaa TIL about turducken, a dish consisting of a deboned chicken stuffed into a deboned duck, further stuffed into a deboned turkey