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TIL about the Finnish unit 'Poronkusema' - The distance a reindeer can travel before needing to stop to urinate. Today used to describe something that is at a very obscure distance away

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b6raN TIL There was a 26-year-old founder of the Farm Bank game (Ciftlik Bank in Turkish), Mehmet Aydin, who fled the country after scamming tens of thousands of people who invested in the game out of pocket for more than $100,000,000.
e01Rn TIL a mother realized that her twin boys had two different fathers. Following a DNA test, the couple learned that the babies were actually from two different fathers and the mother then revealed she had a previous one-night stand, Vice reported.
bEpZ TIL Rage Against The Machine was told to censor their song, “Killing In The Name” when playing it live on the BBC. They started out censoring it, but towards the end of the song “Fuck you, I won’t do what you tell me!” was repeated 5 times live before the BBC shut off the broadcast.
JYBYm TIL in May 2006, over 300 Portuguese school children received medical attention for an illness which caused rashes and shortness of breath. The illness was later cited as being a case of mass hysteria caused by an episode of a soap opera which dealt with a deadly virus outbreak in a school.
0wd51 TIL of Frantisek Zahradka. He was arrested in 1949 in Czechoslovakia when he was in high school for assisting people to cross the border. He spent two years in solitary, and 18 years was forced to mine uranium ore for the government.