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TIL: A Scottish man called Gregor MacGregor invented a country called Poyais and earned millions from investors who invested in this non existant country!

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6K1X TIL in 2015, a former Google employee purchased the Google domain for $12 because of an error. Google offered to pay him $6006.13 (that spells “Google”) to have it back. When he said he would donate it to charity, they doubled it to $12,000.
alYb TIL that there are six million iPhones in Iran, despite them being banned by both the Iranian government and international sanctions.
x6Kd1 TIL that the new MacBook trackpads don't physically make a click sound or move down. Rather, it's computer-generated.
7rAAM TIL Americans waste 150,000 tons of food each day – equal to a pound per person. Study found that the healthiest Americans are the most wasteful, because of their high consumption of fruits and vegetables, which are frequently thrown out.
ldpG TIL Osama Bin Laden was scammed out of $1.5 Million while trying to buy weapons-grade uranium