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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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oBDaL TIL Stephen Colbert's father and two brothers died in a plane crash when he was 10 years old
gMdOD TIL that the Sonderkommando in Auschwitz revolted by throwing three SS personnel into the crematorium furnace alive.
00D5 TIL that English magazine, Homes and Gardens, featured an article about Hitler’s house called ‘Hitler’s Mountain Home’. In it, the author gushed about the furniture, colour scheme and flowers. The following year, Hitler invaded Poland, which started WWII.
jEBa TIL that you need to “prove” you’re gay to the Turkish military by showing “photographic evidence”, basically showing a picture of yourself having sex as the “bottom”, because being “top” doesn’t necessarily mean you’re gay
yEVw TIL of Green Run - a secret Air Force experiment that released Hanford’s largest single dose of radioactive iodine-131. Scientists let 7,000-12,000 curies into the air, traveling as far as 200 miles. For scale, Three Mile Island released an estimated 15-24 curies, Chernobyl 35-49 million curies