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TIL that HSBC Bank has been laundering money for major drug cartels and international terrorists for almost a decade.

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YyPZ TIL If you are involuntarily bumped from your flight due to overbooking, you are legally eligible to receive compensation of 200% of one-way fare for a delay of 1 to 2 hours and 400% for a delay over 2 hours.
J1KrQ TIL that at the 1970 FIFA World Cup, Puma paid Brazilian superstar Pelé, the equivalent of $2.85 million to delay the start of the match to tie his shoe. With the cameras panning to him and his shoe, Puma gained unprecedented global publicity which marked a turning point in their feud with Adidas.
bO8Z TIL that a stockbroker named Nicholas Winton brought saved the lives of 669 Czechoslovakian Jewish children by taking them to England. He refused to take credit until his wife found a scrapbook of the children that he saved and gave it to BBC. He will turn 104 later this year.
0dGmM TIL due to their falsehood-filled coverage of the 1989 Hillsborough disaster, Rupert Murdoch's The Sun is hated not only by Liverpudlians, even both Liverpool and Everton football clubs ban The Sun reporters from their stadia.
WkALA TIL of the SS Morro Castle, a cruise ship that suffered a disastrous fire during a nor'easter off NJ in 1934, killing 137. The cause of the fire was never discovered, but some believe it was intentionally started by the Chief Radio Operator, who was later convicted of two murders and a bombing.