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TIL FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried wanted to buy the small Pacific island nation of Nauru to build a bunker for use in the event of a global catastrophe.

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4Xv9R TIL despite movies and television, never put a raw steak or other raw meat on a black eye. The bacteria on raw meat poses a high risk of infection, and this method of treating a black eye has no scientific basis.
nVRo TIL On their very first day of school children in Germany, The Czech Republic and Austria are given a cardboard cone (“Schultüte”) filled with toys and sweets.
WklPL TIL the first adopters of the bicycle in China were the prostitutes ('sing-song girls'). The bicycle was seen as undignified and far too menial, the prostitutes working the harbors had nothing to lose, so they were the first adopters.
l7j8a TIL that even though Bat Out of Hell is certified 14x platinum in the US, it never reached No. 1 on the Billboard 100.
rRY90 TIL that although children of identical twins are legally first cousins, genetically, they are actually half siblings