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TILcolombian druglord Carlos Ledger had so much money. He offered to pay Colombia’s external debt. Not once but twice.

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79Kx TIL King Amanullah Khan of Afghanistan (1919-1929) once gave a public speech in which he said “Islam did not require women to cover their bodies or wear any special kind of veil”. At the conclusion of the speech, Queen Soraya tore off her veil (hejab) in public.
lo5pG TIL at the start of the 1539 siege of Vienna by the Ottomans, their leader, Suleiman I, was so sure of his victory that he boasted that he would be having breakfast in Vienna cathedral within 14 days. 14 days later, the Austrians sent him a letter, telling him his breakfast was getting cold.
5Vxr9 TIL the amount of time between the first settlement of New Zealand by the indigenous Māori and their first contact with Europeans is shorter than the time between their first contact with Europeans and the present day. New Zealand was unoccupied by humans until 1320.
OMBL TIL that That 70s Show was remade into the British show “Days like These” with almost verbatim scripts. After it failed, the network just ran reruns of That 70s Show.
RBg1 TIL When comparing job creation of different presidents, President Carter was actually one of the most successful. Only one other president created more jobs in one term, and Carter was unmatched in job creation when comparing the first three years of his administration to the others. Since 1952.