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TIL that an Israeli couple were forced to pay over $2000 for an apartment they never rented because their use of smiley and champagne emojis in a text with the prospective landlord conveyed "great optimism", causing him to take the property off the market.

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GMr4 TIL “Texas” means “crazy” in Norway
x6kkD TIL that billionaire Robert H. Richards IV r*ped his infant son and 3-year-old daughter numerous times. He would tell her it was their "little secret”, but she didn't want her "daddy touching [her] anymore". When caught, the judge said he would not "fare well" in prison and his sentence was dropped.
PYPrG TIL that the Nazi Party was particularly fond of decaffeinated coffee, as it saw caffeine as a poison that "threatened the Aryan Race."
69g9Q TIL that the CIA used psychological warfare against Philippine resistance forces in the 1950s by taking advantage of mythical 'Aswang' (vampire-like in Filipino folklore) against the people by puncturing holes on the necks of dead bodies resembling aswang bites & piling them on the sides of roads.
vjdD TIL 250,000 to 500,000 Gypsies were murdered during the Holocaust despite initially being classed as Aryans under Nazi racial ideology