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TIL The film The Wolf of Wall Street was alleged by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) to have been financed by money stolen from the Malaysian 1MDB sovereign wealth fund by producer Riza Aziz who pled not guilty to charges laid in July 2019.

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0wZ7p TIL of the Vandals, a large East Germanic tribe originating from Poland and who, fleeing from the Huns, gradually migrated to Roman territories during the fifth century. They conquered Spain and most of Northern Africa and eventually sacked and looted Rome. The word "vandalism" is named after them.
7rZRb TIL: When foxes discovered fairy penguins on a small Australian island, they nearly wiped the colony out. Swampy Marsh, a chicken farmer, began sending Maremma dogs to protect the birds. Over the next 10 years not a single penguin was killed by a fox.
1RQX TIL The movie Patch Adams hindered the real Patch Adams and his Gesundheit Institute in getting funds to build a hospital as the movie falsely claims the hospital was already built.
mxRvv TIL in 1996 NBA star Mahmud Abdul Rauf refused to stand for the national anthem. His career ended as a result.
6EBL8 TIL Pope Urban VII was the shortest serving Pope in history; living only 12 days after his election. In his short reign, he instituted the world’s first known smoking ban, threatening to excommunicate anyone who "took tobacco in the porchway of or inside a church”. He died of Malaria.