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TIL The Wolf of Wall Street, a dark comedy about financial fraud, was itself funded by one of the biggest corruption scandals in modern financial history.

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PYP8G TIL that none of the architecture on Euro banknotes is real, as the EU prohibited displaying any national monuments, so to not give greater prominence to one country over another. Hence, for the €5 note, a computer was used to scan multiple European bridges and combine them into one neutral design.
N7onP TIL that a Franciscan friar once argued that Paul the Apostle had only condemned sodomy in his epistles because Paul enjoyed sodomy and wanted to keep the practice to himself. The friar was executed for his views in 1550.
dD0LZ TIL of the founder of the Majapahit Empire, Raden Wijaya who used a Mongol army that had originally sailed to Indonesia to invade his father's kingdom to defeat rebels that had deposed and killed his father. He would then destroy the weakened Mongol force and become independent
nePw7 TIL Business Insider in the US made the claim that Stephen Hawking if he was a British citizen, he would have been left to die by the NHS. Stephen Hawking rebutted and stated the only reason he was alive at that time was because of the NHS and reminded them that he was English.
v1wAL TIL that there was a persistent myth that a race of pygmy humans lived in Tennessee. In reality, these were normal bones of Native Americans secondarily buried in short stone coffins.