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TIL that Nigerian scammers once convinced a Brazilian bank to send them $242 million over the course of three years to "invest" in the profits of a new airport. The airport in question never actually existed.

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Qr79 TIL that a blue moon means the second full moon in a month and the first one in over two years is happening next Friday.
Qvop TIL John Quincy Adams was the first American president to grant a woman reporter an interview (Anne Royall) and did so because she sat on his clothes while he bathed nude in the Potomac River.
a890L TIL about the short reign of King Zog I of Albania. Zog was an Albanian dictator who proclaimed himself king in 1928. He smoked 200 cigarettes a day and survived 55 assassination attempts. Within 10 years he took on so much debt that Italy eventually annexed the country and forced him out.
wOR8 TIL that in 2017, the US will experience its first total solar eclipse since 1979, and that people from several countries are already trying to make hotel reservations―years in advance!