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TIL A California drug dealer fled with 60 pounds of meth from the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office after a sting operation failed, the undercover investigators attempted to identify traffickers and met with a suspect. After the transaction, the suspect fled at high speeds.

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9jyB TIL of Belphegor’s Prime. It’s a prime number that is also a palindrome. It’s named after the Prince of Hell for ingenious inventions because it contains two sets of 13 zeroes with 666 in the center. The palindromic prime number is 1000000000000066600000000000001.
MeAvB TIL The Pascha is a 12 story 9,000 square meter brothel in Cologne, Germany. With about 120 prostitutes, over 80 employees and up to 1000 customers per day, it is the largest brothel in Europe
X0mRR TIL - during a test flight in 1961, a DC-8 became the first passenger jet to break the sound barrier and go supersonic. Chuck Yeager was the chase plane pilot.
ANdxa TIL Puyi, the last Emperor of China, made a rare visit in June 1942 to confer with the graduating class at the Manchukuo Military Academy, awarding the top student "Takagi Masao" with a gold watch. Masao's real name was Park Chung Hee, who would later go on to be military dictator of South Korea.
M7PmB TIL: At age 17 Neil Armstrong was accepted into MIT but choose Purdue University instead because he liked the Purdue Boilermakers' Quarterback, and because his uncle advised him that he didn't have to go all the way to Cambridge to receive a good education