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TIL there is a Kappa Kappa Kappa (KKK) fraternity that is older than the Ku Klux Klan

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XER96 TIL one of the primary economic principles of Nazi Germany was the mass privatization of public industries.
NP18 TIL Every year tourists throw approximately 1.1 million Euro into the Trevi Fountain in Rome.
x6OJ0 TIL goose dad, a South Korean term for fathers who work in Korea while their families live abroad for English education, driven by "English Fever". The intense feeling of loneliness and desolation can lead them to engage in extramarital affairs, commit suicide, or face the risk of dying alone
yQGmw TIL that Berlin's Schoenefeld airport once had to be evacuated after security staff mistook a passenger's vibrator for a hand grenade
xVoV0 TIL that the Ivory Billed Woodpecker has been believed to be extinct since the early 1900's. In 1932, however, in an attempt to refute these claims, a Louisiana state legislator and an attorney shot and killed one of the last of the birds and brought the remains to their local wildlife office.