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TIL Switzerland has more millionaires than recipients of social assistance

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l7POV TIL about the media frenzy surrounding the hostage crisis in Gladbeck, Germany in 1988, where a journalist asked to hold the gun to a hostage's head for a photo.
gr78b TIL Chris de Burgh, singer of "Lady In Red", had an affair with his children's 19 year-old nanny while his wife was recovering from a horseback-riding accident.
4xkR TIL in the 1930s, an Irish man named Michael Malloy survived being intentionally fed Antifreeze, Terpentine, Rat Poison, being left in -14 Degree Weather and getting hit by a taxi in a life insurance scam. His nickname became “Mike the Durable”.
5V0Kp TIL Sobhuza II was king of Swaziland from 1899 to 1982 which is the longest reign of monarch in history
Adk4 TIL Canadian Industrial band “Skinny Puppy” demanded $666,000 in royalties from the US Defense Dept. after learning that the US military used their music to torture prisoners at Guantánamo Bay.