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TIL that poached monkeys are sometimes falsely labeled as captive-bred research animals. This is called monkey laundering.

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eWKn TIL that you can see China’s air pollution on satellite images.
yV5eV Til about the Gladbeck Hostage Crisis, when a bus was highjacked in August 1988 after an armed bank raid in Gladbeck, West Germany, and the German media reporters apparently helped the kidnappers during the crime to get a good story
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