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TIL there is a Kenyan fintech app called Okash that threatens to notify everyone on the users contact list if they fall behind on their repayments.

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PYn8g TIL the Nazis ordered 2 Auschwitz prisoners to destroy thousands of inmate mugshot photographs as the camp was evacuated in 1945. The inmates recognized the importance of that evidence and sabotaged the furnace thus saving 38,916 photos.
Ao7B TIL- Of the Carlsberg Social Experiment, where a hidden camera observed the reactions of couples walking into a cinema with only 2 free seats remaining, and all the other 148 seats already filled by badass bikers.
0w7rN TIL that in 2014, Afroman made a remix of his 2001 song 'Because I Got High' where he changed the lyrics to reflect the positive aspects of getting high
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