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TIL This Nigerian Scammer Sold a Fake Airport for $242 Million!

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9wJ7p TIL “Extra Extra! Read all about it!” Was used by Newsies to sell special edition newspapers called “extras”, not actual excess newspapers.
6En9J TIL of Robert Maheu, an American businessman and lawyer, who worked for the FBI and CIA, and as the chief executive of Nevada operations for the industrialist Howard Hughes. He recruited the mob to assassinate Fidel Castro and his investigative agency was a model for television's Mission Impossible.
DQxOe TIL current scientific data support the idea that the first prokaryotic cell likely formed when an archeal cell captured a bacterial cell, causing them to merge and to eventually become the first prokaryote on Earth.
rLBy TIL an NYC woman found a plea for help in her Saks 5th Ave shopping bag written by the African teacher who made it in prison in China. A reporter tracked him down. “Maybe this bag could go somewhere and they find this letter and they can let my family know, or anybody, that I am in prison,” he said.
E1YZ0 TIL Flamingos can live in lakes that are so toxic that the water would strip away human skin.