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TIL North Korea has made a thriving state sponsored industry out of insurance scams for decades

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d8geQ TIL that between years 4000 and 3500 BCE the Tripolye culture centered around modern Moldova in Eastern Europe have built the largest settlements in the world at the time, inhabited by 20,000 to 46,000 people. Cities of this size only reappeared in Mesopotamia a millenium later.
M7LOK TIL A US doctor gained fame for transplanting goat testicles into men as a cure for impotence and to boost virility
16wbD TIL "Cart-Starts"(tiny explosives) are used to make a launch quicker for B-52s
a8evA TIL that Benjamin Franklin, One of the Founding Fathers Was a Postmaster General for the United States Postal Service When it Was Founded in 1775
X0Dej TIL the Nile crocodile has the strongest bite of all animals.