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TIL Norway maintains the largest sovereign wealth fund totaling $882 Billion in assets

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R7V8Q TIL Hermann Goering's daughter has attempted to claim ownership of the art collections that the Nazi Leader stole during WW2. Her appeals have been rejected since the sixties.
BrWAy TIL that the story of the Pied Piper leading kids away is based on a historic tragedy that occurred in Hamelin, Germany, during the 13th century. Nothing is conclusively known about the nature of the tragedy, besides a 1384 inscription that reads "It is 100 years since our children left''.
w8K6 TIL that we have been warned that Iran will have obtained a nuclear bomb “within years” since 1984.
kJrQm TIL that the entire state of Michigan was poisoned in 1973
4XnkJ TIL paparazzi once misidentified Debbie Harry (lead singer of Blondie) for film star Lindsay Lohan. When it happened in 2012, Lohan was 25 years old and Harry was 66.