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TIL of famous con man Steve Comisar discussing romance with fraudster Etta Lucero on DatelineNBC.

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x6pgB TIL The White Helmets in Syria is an organization dedicated to providing free aid to civilians during the war.
XEXMr TIL in 2013 the Redskins cheerleaders were being exploited to please sponsors in a showing outside the country and some were made to strip in front of male guest and passports were removed.
9wL8p TIL that the first recorded Ponzi scheme wasn’t by Charles Ponzi: it was by German Adele Spitzeder in the 19th century, who used new investors’ money to repay old investors. At her height, she was the wealthiest woman in Bavaria, until she was convicted of bad accounting and stripped of her assets
jNRMR TIL: The appropriately dubbed ‘boss of all bosses’ of the Italian Mafia has been on the run for 26 years, and has been so successful at it that not a single picture exists of him from that time, despite being one of the worlds top 10 most wanted criminals.
nWEvo TIL many of the fundamental elements of modern computers, including windows, hypertext, graphics, video conferencing, the computer mouse and word processors were unveiled for the first time in a single presentation.