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TIL The largest bank heist in history occurred in March 2003, when Saddam Hussein’s son Qusay walked in to the Central Bank of Iraq with a handwritten note from his father authorizing the withdrawal of $920 million.

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Z89YY TIL in 1975, a Soviet naval officer led a mutiny onboard a frigate with the aim of toppling the government of Brezhnev. It failed after a standoff with half of the Soviet Baltic fleet, but an article about it inspired an insurance salesman named Tom Clancy to write his book, The Hunt for Red October
BrZaD Today I Learned that due to the popularity of the song “Hey Ya” by OutKast, specifically the line “shake it like a Polaroid picture,” the Polaroid company had to issue a statement informing consumers that shaking the Polaroid picture will not assist in developing the photo and can actually ruin it.
VMw6Q TIL: Of the existence of 'Peaks of eternal light' or high places on planets with little axial tilt that would always be in sunlight from their star.
j5ka TIL that in 1942 Franklin D. Roosevelt proposed a maximum income of $25,000, equivalent to roughly $350,000 today.
0gav TIL that Paul Shaffer, of the Late Show With David Letterman, wrote the song “It’s Raining Men”