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TIL Most terrorists use the same wrist watch.

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Egdoo TIL that in 1890 an anticlerical journalist (Leo Taxil) pulled off a 12-year prank to humiliate the Vatican involving: inventing a cult of satanic Freemasons, paying his typist to play the part of a Luciferian Templar Mistress, revealing it all to have been a hoax once the Vatican had endorsed it.
QN84p TIL: Ferrero, the company that makes Nutella, uses 25% of the global hazelnut supply
rK5d TIL That people in Asian Countries have slanted eyes due to an Epicanthic Fold, Which protects there eyes during cold weather and protects the from the sun reflecting on snow.
Y5ZZ TIL Foreign diplomats who rent property in the U.S. cannot be legally obligated to pay the rent, and the landlords are forbidden from entering the property at all. Some diplomatic missions have run up $1 million in back rent.
9YrO6 TIL the Nokia ringtone is taken from a classical guitar piece called 'Gran Val' by Francisco Tarrega