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TIL Investing $5 in bitcoin 7 years ago would make you $4.4 million richer today.

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e0XA5 TIL Bulgaria ended up at war with everyone in 1944 by accident. Bulgaria declared war on Germany due to Soviet pressure, not knowing that the Soviets, tired of waiting, declared war on Bulgaria the same day. By the next day Bulgaria was at war with the USSR, US, UK and Germany all at the same time.
DWYg TIL that K-pop is subsidized by the South Korean government, because every $100 in music sales increases exports of Korean manufacturing by $412
nW7Nd TIL Zhu Di, the Yongle Emperor of the Chinese Ming dynasty was given a Giraffe as tribute in 1414. The animal had been transported by envoys all the way from Kenya to Bengal to Beijing
xVAmw TIL Folk Singer Phil Ochs was paranoid that the FBI was spying on him, saying, "I'm a folk singer for the FBI" in 1966. In reality the FBI had hundreds of pages on file, but Ochs never committed a federal crime. He continued to be under investigation until his death by suicide in 1976.
j65M TIL that the CEO of LifeLock had his identity stolen 13 times after making his Social Security number public.